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| Name: |
Jules Laforgue | | Birth Date: |
August 16, 1860 | | Death Date: |
August 20, 1887 | | Place of Birth: |
Montevideo, Uruguay | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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Biography of Jules Laforgue
387 words, approx. 1 pages
 The work of the French poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) is distinguished by its qualities of skepticism and irony and its development of the technique of free verse. Jules Laforgue was born on August 16, 1860, at Montevideo, Uruguay, one of five...
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Biography of Jules Laforgue
7,572 words, approx. 25 pages
 Jules Laforgue, poet, critic and parodist, holds a unique place in the history of French literature as one of Charles Baudelaire's most astute and self-conscious inheritors, whose ironic and self-mocking poetic stance at once reflected and shaped the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jules Laforgue Information
504 words, approx. 2 pages
 Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century ·...


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 The Southern Review
Jules Laforgue. (poet)
01/01/1996: 469 words, approx. 2 pages French poet Jules Laforgue is considered to be a pioneer of modern poetry because of his existential approach, use of free verse and the frequent touches of irony and paradox in his verses. Laforgue studied in France in the 1880s and became poet at...
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 Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Laforgue, Jules. Papiers retrouves.(Book review)
09/22/2007: 1,019 words, approx. 3 pages Laforgue, Jules. Papiers retrouves. Edition preparee et annotee par Jean-Louis Debauve, Mireille Dottin-Orsini, Jacques-Andre Dupre et Jean-Jacques Lefrere. Tusson (Charente): Du Lerot, 2005. Pp. 402 + 24 plates & 26 figures. ISBN This interesting volume consists of three very different sets of...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michele Hannoosh
7,857 words, approx. 26 pages
 Hannoosh is the author of Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's "Moralités légendaires" (1989). In the following essay, she interprets the story "Salomé" as a self-reflexive parody of the Decadent movement by a Decadent author.
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Critical Essay by Michele Hannoosh
7,468 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Hannoosh analyzes themes and symbols in "Lohengrin, fils de Parsifal, " especially as they relate to the function of parody in the story.
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Critical Essay by G. M. Turnell
7,242 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, Turnell addresses many of the issues central to early-twentieth-century Laforgue studies: Baudelaire's influence on the poet's development; the poet's artistic immaturity at the time of his death; his stylistic relationship to Romanticism and Classicism; and his contribution to the creation of vers libre.


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