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1 online resource (iv, 172 pages) |
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs |
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Yves Bonnefoy: Ontological Performance -- Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy -- Poetry and Performance -- 1: Performative Utterance in Dans le leurre du seuil -- 'La Terre' -- The Advent and Sacrifice of the Poem -- Breaking the Fourth Wall -- 'Retrouvons-nous': Contact, Togetherness, Exposure -- 'Une ontologie à venir' -- Consent -- An Ontological Performance -- 2: In a World of Material Presence, Début et fin de la neige |
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Début et fin de la neige -- 'Noli me tangere' -- Adulthood and Infancy: Learning to be Surprised by the World -- Exposing the Body of Language -- A Spacious Worldly Performance -- 3: Voice and Subjectivity in Les Planches courbes -- 'La Voix lointaine' -- 'À l'écoute': Listening to a Distant Voice -- The Subject of Division and Lack -- The Dancing Voice: 'un sujet en battement' -- 'En résonance', 'l'extimité' -- A Corporeal Performance -- Conclusion -- 'L'Heure présente' -- Presence -- Ontological Performance -- Bibliography -- Texts by Yves Bonnefoy -- (i) Poetry -- (ii) Prose |
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Texts by Jean-Luc Nancy -- Secondary Texts -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores how the French poet Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) develops a newly affirmative, tactile, and embodied practice of poetic performance in the latter half of his career. It investigates how this shift is prompted by a conceptual change that Bonnefoy undergoes in writing Dans le leurre du seuil (1975) as he comes to perceive finitude not merely as a force of dissolution but as a dynamic of opening and exposure. Analysing how this transformation convinces the poet of the generative nature of the act of relation, this study examines how Bonnefoy no longer perceives the poem as an isolated body that reaches out to the material world from a distance but presents it as an ontological performance: an exploration of the dynamics by which linguistic, corporeal, and material forces reverberate side by side and by which worldly existence opens up in and through the poem. Using Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical writings to cast new light on this practice of poetic performance, this book explores how the poet and the philosopher both stress the immersive nature of this kind of textual experimentation. It investigates how they insist that the text does not speak about the world but experiments with its creative force from within, exploring the spacious dynamics of exposition that bring the poem into being, asking us to situate ourselves within these dynamics and to be opened up by them, to reimmerse ourselves in an endlessly mobile and relational world |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Bonnefoy, Yves -- Criticism and interpretation
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Nancy, Jean-Luc -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bonnefoy, Yves. fast (OCoLC)fst00053838 |
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Nancy, Jean-Luc. fast (OCoLC)fst00080095 |
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French poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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French poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Philosophy in literature.
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French poetry.
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Philosophy in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191883675 |
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0191883670 |
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9780192589446 |
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019258944X |
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