Stéphane Mallarmé

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. First edition, first printing (full number line). Large quarto in black cloth in blue and black dust jacket (white strip down blue spine); 245 pp. 25 cm. Fine copy in very good(+) dust jacket; jacket is lightly shelfworn with light scratches and rubbing to spine ends and corners; no tears to jacket; cloth have the faintest bit of rubbing to cover and spine joint but you'd really have to look hard to see it; o/w copy is tight and clean with clean, crisp bright pages free of marks and creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is tight and square; a gently loved copy. in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 1555462898

In English. Series: Modern Critical Views; Out of print; Contents: The Igitur experience / Maurice Blanchot -- Mallarmé's "Prose pour des esseintes" / Georges Poulet -- "Hommage (à Richard Wagner)" / Robert Greer Cohn -- Literature and totality / Philippe Sollers -- Lyric and modernity / Paul de Man -- The double session / Jacques Derrida -- Mallarmé's "Sonnet en yx": the ambiguities of speculation / E.S. Burt -- Le nénuphar blanc": a poetic dream with two unknowns / Roger Gragonetti -- The tree of doubt / Hans-Jost Frey -- Poetry and performative language: Mallarmé and Austin / Barbara Johnson -- "Du fond d'un naufrage": notes on Michel Serres and Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés" / Bonnie J. Isaac -- The man dies / Leo Bersani -- Les fleurs du mal armé: some reflections on intertextuality / Barbara Johnson.Standard No: ISBN: 1555462898 ((alk. paper)); 9781555462895 ((alk. paper)) LCCN: 87-8084