Stamos Metzidakis

Titles

Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (French); Comparative Literature

Book

Ed. Prose Poetry. Spec. issue Esprit Créateur. 36.4 (Winter, 1999). Introduction as well as comparative study of how Baudelaire and Magritte both take aspects of ordinary life and make them poetic or artistic, while at the same time taking the poetic and artistic and making them seem ordinary.

Articles

“A Neoformalist Approach to 19th-Century French Poetry.” Romance Studies 26: 4 (November 2008), 273-285. A reassessment of the role of form in cultural studies of French poetry.

“Isidore Ducasse, précurseur d’Odilon Redon: L’hypotypose en noir et blanc” ["Isadore Ducasse, precursor of Odilon Redon: The Hypotyposis in Black and White"]. Orbis Litterarum. 63.2 (April, 2008), 133-51. A comparative reading of the use of strong visual imagery, through the rhetorical figure hypotyposis, in the scandalous symbolist poetry of Lautréamont and the visionary symbolist painting of Redon.

“Des lyres au délire: Rimbaud dépassant Verlaine” [“From Lyres to Delirium: Rimbaud Surpassing Verlaine”]. Rimbaud vivant. 46 (June, 2007): 69-79. A study of how Rimbaud takes to extremes the more conventional lyric poetry of his close friend and collaborator, Verlaine.

“Poétique de la ligne: Autour des colonnes sculptées” ["Poetics of the Line: Beating Around Sculpted Columns"]. Sculpture et Poésie: 1789-1848. [Sculpture and Poetry: 1789-1848]. Eds. Suzanne Nash and Cassandra Hamrick. Spec. issue, Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 35:1 (Fall, 2006): 206-25. How both modern poetry and sculpture associate vertical figures (found in public monuments like towers and obelisks) with ideals like unchanging peace, harmony and beauty, while associating the horizontal axis of such figures with disorder, movement, and history itself.