The Ladder of High Designs: Structure and Interpretation of the French Lyric SequenceDoranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin This collection of essays on the structure and interpretation of the French lyric squence marks a number of tentative signposts for future travlers along this relatively unmarked path. It explores the means of seeing how harmony and greater meaning, concordia discors, arises from the organization of a collection of poems into a poetic work. |
Contents
Sylvia Huot | 26 |
George Joseph | 41 |
Doranne Fenoaltea | 54 |
Catherine Ingold | 73 |
Notes Toward a Poetic and Rhetoric | 91 |
John Porter Houston | 110 |
Sandra Daniel | 138 |
Sarah Lawall | 172 |
Contributors | 201 |
Common terms and phrases
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