The material, the real, and the fractured self

"In The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self, Susan Harrow explores the interrelation of subjectivity, materiality, and representation in the poetry and related texts of four modern French writers: Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apolinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Reda." "Harrow addresses the widely perceived marginalization of poetry in the writing/theory debate, demonstrating that the emergence of a self at once shaped by and straining against material, historical, subjective, and cultural impediments reveals fertile relations between theory and poetry."--BOOK JACKET.