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André Frénaud's Plural Voice, Roger Little
André Frénaud's Plural Voice, Roger Little
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Dramatic self-projection and the use of recurrent or occasional personae are features manifest in André Frénaud's poetry. One also notes a tendency to multiply unique phenomena. Furthermore, the medium of his poetry displays huge variety in form and tone. This study reviews a selection of these interacting characteristics and investigates their relationship to the poet, who represents the unity beneath the diversity, but whose self proves versatile in its exploration of world, word and identity through the revealing ventriloquy of plural voices.
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.
Living Transcription: The Poetry Of Jean Tortel, Suzanne Nash
Living Transcription: The Poetry Of Jean Tortel, Suzanne Nash
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
With the publication of six new books of poetry since 1979, Jean Tortel has joined his contemporaries, Francis Ponge and Guillevic, as one of France's leading materialist poets. His writing, recounting the process of its own unfolding with voluptuous precision, is meant to bear witness through its figurations to the forces of chance and mutability governing the natural order. As such it constitutes a place of passage or verbal garden, both sumptuous and ordinary, where reading and formulation merge.
Shall We Escape Analogy, Rosmarie Waldrop
Shall We Escape Analogy, Rosmarie Waldrop
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Claude Royet-Journoud's and Anne-Marie Albiach's work can be read as manifestos against metaphor (relation by similarity, the vertical selection axis of the speech act) with which poetry has long been identified. Whereas Royet-Joumoud takes as his theme metaphor in the largest sense (including, finally, all representation that is based on analogy), Albiach's "Enigme" dramatizes the loss of the vertical dimension through, ironically, a metaphor: the fall of a body. Formally, both stress as alternative the horizontal axis of combination (especially the spatial articulation on the page) and the implied view that the world is constructed by language, that it does …
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.
Retracing The Text: Francisco Brines' Poemas Excluidos, Judith Nantell
Retracing The Text: Francisco Brines' Poemas Excluidos, Judith Nantell
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In 198S Francisco Brines published Poemas excluidos [Excluded Poems]. In this work he included, ironically and paradoxically (considering the title), various poems that had been excluded from his previously published collections of poetry. This essay investigates the critical activity of reconstructing the text within the included-excluded intertextual context of Brines' poetic production. In particular, as will be shown, Poemas excluidos demonstrates the play of texts and play of meaning that constitute the complex object the literary critic seeks to describe. One aspect of the play of texts evident in this work is that the poem is a symbiont not …