Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

One: The Object In Modernism In The United States And France

Two: Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy’s Aesthetics Of Impersonality

Three: The Text As Object: Francis Ponge’s Verbal Still Lifes

Four: Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain’s (Meta)Poetics Of The Object

Five: The Object As (M)other: Guillevic’s Poetry And Object-Relations Theory

Six: Jean Tortel’s Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze

Seven: L’objet apres l’objet: Contemporary French Poetry

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John C. Stout is an associate professor in the Department of French at McMaster University.