Mallarme The Politics of the Siren

The first English translation of Rancière's study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé.

Foreword \ 1. The Foam of Verse \ i. The White Preoccupation \ 2. The Poetics of Mystery \ i. The Terms of Mystery \ ii. The Scene of Dream \ iii. From Nothingness to Nothing \ iv. Method of Fiction \ v. The Fan's Poem \ 3. Hymns of the Spiritual Chorus \ i. The Religion of the Century \ ii. Two Theses on Divinity \ iii. The Poet and the Worker \ iv. Musical Religion \ v. Wagner the God: Poem, Music and Politics \ 4. The Duty of the Book \ i. The Poem as Thought: A Secular History \ ii. Music, Dance, Poem: The Circle of 'Mimesis' \ iii. The Authentic Page \ Selection of Texts \ Index.