| Strands of Utopia: Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth Century France Contributor(s): Kelly, Michael G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1905981147 ISBN-13: 9781905981144 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting, multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self-) invention. This study attempts to outline certain durable properties of that practice by confronting it with the complex theoretical and spatial metaphor of utopia. Drawing, in particular, upon the oeuvres of Victor Segalen (1878-1919), Rene Daumal (1908-44) and Yves Bonnefoy (b. 1923), it traces poetic work - work done in support of poetic difference - along the social, physical and textual axes of what is argued to be a sustained and radically inclusive utopian practice within the literary field. The complex utopian quality of poetic work is linked to the cultural persistence of the poetic as a simple attribute within literary practice. In uncovering this link, the study encourages revised understandings of both the poetic and the utopian in the modern French literary context. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Foreign Language Study - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism |
| Dewey: 841.910 |
| LCCN: 2009291559 |
| Series: Legenda Main |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.8" W x 9.7" (1.60 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: This book outlines certain durable properties of multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual invention by confronting it with the complex theoretical and spatial metaphor of utopia. It encourages understandings of the poetic and the utopian in the twentieth-century French literary context. |