“An Aquatic Reverie”|Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves

作     者：Clark Lunberry 

作者机构：University of North Florida 

出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第3卷第2期

页      面：56-64页

学科分类：050203[文学-法语语言文学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Stéphane Mallarmé modern poetry and poetics image mirage water 

摘      要：At his home outside Paris,in Valvin,Stéphane Mallarméspent much time on his small boat dreamily sailing upon the Seine,seeing this body of flowing water as a site for inspiration and ***,Mallarméonce confided to a friend,“I no longer write a poem without an aquatic reverie running through it,and that,for him,poetry was like an“oar stroke,and the sail,a“white page.When Mallarméwas invited to lecture at Oxford University in 1894,he did not speak specifically of time spent on the water,his life on the Seine,but his own pronouncements on poetic form and function seem inspired by his own aquatic reveries about surfaces and depths,transparency and opacity,and of those fluid spaces of the imagination that can be approached but not penetrated,of liquid impressions seen but not *** my essay,I discuss Mallarmé’s seminal Oxford lecture and the manner in which his time on the water,his reveries floating upon its surface,offer a way into his poetic pronouncements,as well as into a poetry that remains to this day rich in mystery,power,and enduring *** essay concludes with a discussion of my own“Writing on Waterart and poetry installation,in 2017,at Oxford University,a project presented in conjunction with the conference“Power of the Word|The Prophetic Wordwhere I delivered a variation of the essay that follows.