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« Ni “Hombre del diablo”, ni “Hombre de Dios”: Quevedo o “l’Homme des Lettres”»
2021
espanolLa presente reflexion arranca en la recepcion que tuvo Rene Bouvier acerca de la obra de Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, encasillandolo como «Homme du diable, Homme de Dieu». Este trabajo parte del postulado de un escritor coherente desde perspectivas eticas, y pragmatico desde experimentos e innovaciones esteticas. La meta de este articulo consiste, sin separar la vertiente filosofico-moral de la obra ficcional —sea poetica o en prosa—, en demostrar que no se le puede calificar a Quevedo ni de «Homme de Dieu» y aun menos de «Homme du diable». ?Quien es, pues, Quevedo, desde la perspectiva de un critico del siglo XXI? EnglishThe present reflection begins from the reception that Rene…
Entre air et terre: les éléments dans Aurora Leigh d'Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2010
Surprinsingly enough, despite the fact that it is strongly associated with femininity, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has no use for water as an element in her narrative of Aurora Leigh's progress as a poet in the eponymous poem. Fire is only used in its usual purifying function. But she does construct a complex architecture from the elements of aire and earth. She starts with the generally accepted duality of earth, both nurturing and a symbol of death. She multiplies the associations with air: angels and squirrels, wind and mountains, to cite only a few. She then examines and redefines the relationships between these two elements in liofe and in poetry and finally reaches a mystical union anc…
Iconicity and Typography in Steve McCaffery's Panel-Poems
2007
This paper discusses Steve McCaffery's "Panel-Poems", first realized in the 1960s, with respect to the international context of concrete poetry and the emergence of a poetics of iconicity amongst a North-American avant-garde in the second half of the twentieth century. The material emphasis of McCaffery's poetry is played out typographically in his work "Carnival" (1967-75) through procedures that place the letter, the smallest denominator of language and the page in newly imagined networks of signification. The experiment with the environment of writing is sustained by a reliance upon the typewriter and other forms of scription that conceive of the reader as an active participant in the cr…
Concrete / Visual Poetry
2011
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An English Poet in Scotland: John Keats's Letters To His Brother Tom
2005
This paper studies the letters John Keats sent to his brother during his walking tour of Scotland. This means of expression provided the young poet with a medium in which to share his doubts and shocks when confronted with what was still a very foreign country for an Englishman at the time. The article first shows how letter-writing plays a part in creating distance from unpleasant experiences, mostly thanks to humour. It then moves on to a study of Keats's reactions in front of the Scottish landscape and Burns's cottage and tombstone, two aspects of Scotland he had been eager to discover. The language in the letters thus gradually becomes more literary, and the last part of the article foc…
La nature foudroyée
2004
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"Dis poem is still not written." A Study of Diamesic Variation in Jamaican Dub Poetry
2020
International audience; This paper looks at diamesic variation in the works of Jamaican and Anglo-Jamaican dub poets such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah and Mutabaruka. Dub poetry constitutes a turning point in the history of literature in Creole, since the genre achieved to establish Patwa as the legitimate medium for Caribbean writers, thereby effectively inverting (post)colonial linguistic hierarchies. Though closely associated with the reggae tradition, dub poets have always claimed to be doing “real” literature and published their work in written form as well as in audio or video recordings. The paper analyses various strategies to inscribe orality and orature in written t…
“Sometimes I Wanda/Who Will Translate/Dis/Fe de Inglish?” Strategies for Transcribing Jamaican Creole in the Dub Poems of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Be…
2019
International audience; The question of dialect has always been central to Caribbean literature, and more specifically to poetry. In a (post)colonial context of diglossia between standard English and Jamaican Creole, and of a strong hierarchy between oral and scribal forms of linguistic and literary expression, the mere possibility of writing ‘real’ literature in Patwa was severely contested until quite recently. Yet, an increasing number of poets have experimented with Creole over the course of the last century and have amply demonstrated that it is a legitimate medium for poetic and literary expression.This paper looks at various strategies employed by Anglo-Jamaican dub poets Linton Kwes…
« It Dread Inna Inglan », une chronique des luttes des Antillais au Royaume-Uni dans les poèmes de Linton Kwesi Johnson
2019
International audience; Linton Kwesi Johnson, dit LKJ, chanteur, poète et musicien de reggae s’est affirmé depuis les années 1960 comme un artiste noir de premier plan en Angleterre. Né en 1952 en Jamaïque, LKJ arrive à Londres parmi les dizaines de milliers d’immigrants antillais qui s’installent au Royaume-Uni à partir de l’après-guerre. Dans un contexte social tendu, marqué par le racisme et les violences policières auxquels font face les Antillais, LKJ développe une nouvelle forme d’expression artistique entre musique et poésie : la « dub poetry ». Ce faisant, il devient le porte-voix des luttes des Noirs pour leur reconnaissance au sein de la société britannique.
Contemporary Irish poets’ pictorial (self-)portraits
2012
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