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Staging of Language is a reassessment of Mallarme's poetics that demonstrates how Mallarme and Artaud redefine the traditional frontiers of the arts and literature. Focusing on the relation Mallarme establishes between language, sketches, musicality and virtual theater, Dominique Fisher reveals a new Mallarme whose poetics cannot be defined simply within the framework of blanks and silence. She demonstrates how Mallarme's quest for non-verbal modes of representation of poetic language initiates a definite revolution in the treatment of poetry and theater in the modern period. Her analysis of Artaud's language of signs adds new dimensions to his search for a poetic construction of space. The book also presents central statements about the evolution of poetics and semiology.

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Dominique Fisher's book constitutes an outstanding contribution to current studies of poetry, theater and modernity. She skillfully demonstrates how, since Mallarme, poetic language and scenic language inform and transform one another and lead to major revolutions in both contemporary poetry and theatrical practice. This challenging analysis of Mallarme's poetics foregrounds Artaud's quest for a physical language of the stage. Moreover, her probing reading of Mallarme and Artaud establishes new parameters in the domain of non-verbal and visual signs. (Martine Antle, University of North Carolina)

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The Author: Dominique Fisher is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her graduate degrees from La Sorbonne and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry, fiction and art criticism by poets.

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