Twenty-First-Century Symbolism

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at St John’s College, University of Oxford.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Individuation and Practice: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé

Chapter 1: Haiku-Verlaine
i. Discrete Ecstasies
ii. Haiku-individuation
iii. Individuation in Simondon
iv. Verlainian Haiku
Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Verlaine-Environment
i. Verlaine and the Image
ii. Three Verlaine-Readers: Bernadet, Richard and Scott
iii. Verlaine Today
iv. The Verlaine-Environment
Coda: In the Grass…

Chapter 3: Affectivity and Ecology in Baudelaire’s Twilight
i. The Affective Ecology of ‘Le Crépuscule du soir’: Baudelaire and Massumi
ii. Phenomenology and Spiritual Materialism: Poulet and Poe
iii. The Politics of Atmospheres: Chambers and Rancière
Conclusion

Chapter 4: Baudelaire and the Power of Colour
i. The Process-Relational World of Colour
ii. The Colour of the Sun: Baudelaire with Cézanne
iii. Baudelaire Was Never Modern: Art as Ecological Practice
Coda: From Baudelaire to Mallarmé

Chapter 5: Mallarmé and the Individu-Livre
i. The Book-Event: Politics and Beauty
ii. The Book as Practice
iii. The Production of the Individu-Livre

Chapter 6: Mallarmé’s Demonic Media Theory
i. Demonic Modulations
ii. Mallarméan Individuation and Twenty-First-Century Media
iii. Mallarmé and Cybernetics
iv. The Livre and the Anti-Livre
Coda: Is Mallarmé Digital?

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index