Modernist Song : The Poetry of Tristan Tzara (Hardcover)

1. Introduction 2. Talking Nonsense: Glossolalia and Freudian Condensation in Vingt-cinq poemes (1918) 3. Tristan Tzaras Silent Circus: Towards a Stylistics of Sense Fields in De nos oiseaux (1923) 4. The Surrealist Song-Man: The Glossolalia of Abjection in L'Homme approximatif (1931) 5. The Tears of the Clown: Loss and Nationhood in Ou boivent les loups (1932) and Midis gagnes (1939) 6. ‘Parler Seul’: Memory, Syntax, and the Prose Poem in De memoire d'homme (1950) and Miennes (1955) 7. Conclusion