Earth and mind : : dreaming, writing, being : nine contemporary French poets - Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pins

• VerfasserIn: Bishop, Michael, 1938-
• TeilnehmendeR: Bishop, Michael, 1938-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Chiasma 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 pages).

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop’s book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et poïein, agnose et reconnaissance. Seize études sur la poésie française et francophone contemporaine .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Bibliographical Note -- Yves Bonnefoy, La Grande Ourse: Voice, Consciousness, Presence, Naming 1 -- Jacqueline Risset, Les Instants: Epiphany, (Un)groundedness, Trial, Desire 21 -- Salah Stétié, L’Être: Embodiment, Void, Unfiguredness, Uraeus 40 -- Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Le Livre des Suppliques: Hauntedness, Vigilance, Fable, Circularity 55 -- Tahar Ben Jelloun, Que la Blessure se Ferme: Light, Love, Passion, Paradox 71 -- André Velter, L’amour Extrême: Absoluteness, Relativity, Fury, Marvel 91 -- Marie-Claire Bancquart, Tracé du Vivant: Primordiality, Rites, Question, Rebirth 105 -- Jean-Claude Pinson, Alphabet Cyrillique: Dailiness, Autobiopoiesis, Freedom, Resistance 119 -- Jacques Dupin, Le Grésil: Ubac and Adret, Individuation and Pleroma 133 -- A Few Closing Remarks 142 -- Back Matter -- Select Bibliography.