Toward the end of his life, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98), French poet and founding father of Symbolism, published the prose collection Divagations (1897). This highly ambitious, eclectic work, a repository of Mallarmé’s aesthetic, revitalises the critical enterprise and shakes the very foundations of the literary act. His practice is inaugural, effecting a critique of the subject and of poet ... (read more)
Jill Anderson
Jill Anderson taught French at the University of Melbourne. She is a member of the editorial board of the Cahiers Stéphane Mallarmé. She edited the volume Australian Divagations: Mallarmé and the 20th Century (2002) and is author of La Poésie éprise d’elle-même: Poétique de Stéphane Mallarmé (2002). Her research focuses on configurations of the self in Mallarmé’s prose.