The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau’s Art:Paths to Immortality

by: James Jackson (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/9/24

Language: English

Print Length: 174 pages

ISBN-10: 3031721624

ISBN-13: 9783031721625

Book Description

Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has:to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of his plays, poems, and films. This book puts the work of this elusive and compelling poet under the microscope, examining how he channeled the conces and anxieties of his age (and beyond) into his creations. Putting aside anecdotes of his life and other biographical minutiae, it tus to the creative achievements of the polymath – some well-known, some less so – to examine how he wrestles with the profound questions that conce human nature and enters into a conversation with his creative forebears on matters relating to love, imagination, suffering, and consolation.

About the Author

Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has:to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of his plays, poems, and films. This book puts the work of this elusive and compelling poet under the microscope, examining how he channeled the conces and anxieties of his age (and beyond) into his creations. Putting aside anecdotes of his life and other biographical minutiae, it tus to the creative achievements of the polymath – some well-known, some less so – to examine how he wrestles with the profound questions that conce human nature and enters into a conversation with his creative forebears on matters relating to love, imagination, suffering, and consolation.

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