In the Flesh of the Text

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-420-2366-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: Brill

This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of France’s foremost contemporary woman poets. Marie-Claire Bancquart’s work explores, primarily through the vulnerabilities and sensitivities of the body (hence this book’s ‘carnal’ title), the possibility of releasing a cry: a salvation of language and spirit from indifference, abstraction and dehumanisation, a celebration of a moment’s reunion with the recreative vitality of the physical universe, an act of love in its most private yet cosmic expression. Bancquart has described her language as a ‘braille of the living’: minimal, interrupted and riddled with obscurities and gaps of the unsayable, but apprehending the world and composing its significance in a singularly tactile translation. This study will appeal to those keen to discover one of the most original voices of present-day European poetry, the distinctive poetic resonances of one of its most self-aware and vibrant female sensibilities, and the provocative orientations of ‘new writing’ traversed by the dilemmas and paradoxes of our own era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broome, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Mémoire d’abolie
Définition
Opportunité des oiseaux
Trains
Opéra des limites
Suite au dieu-lune
Sans lieu sinon l’attente
Cariatides
Énigmatiques
Carnet
La vie, lieu-dit
Habitée par une tendresse
La paix saignée
À la morte
Bio-Bibliography
Index of proper names

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Broome is a well-known specialist of modern French poetry, with major books on Baudelaire, Henri Michaux, André Frénaud and Louise Herlin. He is also a prolific translator, having produced bilingual editions of Jean-Charles Vegliante’s collection Les Oublies, Bancquart’s Énigmatiques and, most recently, a wide-ranging anthology of Frénaud’s work, Selected poems, 1938-1986.