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The Notion Of Presence In The Poetics Of Yves Bonnefoy, John T. Naughton
The Notion Of Presence In The Poetics Of Yves Bonnefoy, John T. Naughton
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The notion of presence is the cornerstone of Bonnefoy's entire poetics, the common element linking his earliest pronouncements about poetry to his latest. The insistence on presence emerges as the animating principle of a selfconsciously anti-Mallarmean concept of poetry that seeks to align itself with hopefulness and with an affirmation of this life. The term is never defined once and for all, however, and the great range of evocations and applications of the idea in Bonnefoy's work has triggered a significant critical debate about its significance and validity.
Thought And Perception: Bernard Noël And The Mind's Eye, Laurie Edson
Thought And Perception: Bernard Noël And The Mind's Eye, Laurie Edson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Bernard Noël has investigated the relationship between the conceptual and the visual in many of his prose and poetic texts. From the earlier "body" poetry of Extraits du corps, where the image of the inward-looking eye makes its appearance, to his book on Magritte's "visible thought" and the prose text Le 19 octobre 1977, where he thematizes the functioning of perception, Noël explores the complex interplay between seeing and thought, language and thought, and seeing and writing. This study analyzes these and other major issues driving Noel's poetics.