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Review of Literatures of the European Union

Issue n. 2 - September 2005

Forms and antiforms in the poetry of the second half of the 20th Century
ed. by Ana Pano

Index and Abstracts


Bibliography
- Presentation of Issue n. 2

Ambra Zorat (Université Paris IV- Sorbonne)
Intorno a libertà e prigionia: alcune riflessioni su Variazioni Belliche di Amelia Rosselli - Abstract
Title in English: On Freedom and Captivity: some reflections on Variazioni Belliche by Amelia Rosselli

Guillaume Artous-Bouvet (Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis)
Une lecture de Celan: di-visions de la forme - Abstract
Title in English: A reading of Celan: di-visions of the form

Regina Patzak (Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis)
Die Anti- Form in der österreichischen Dichtung in der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel HC Artmann und Ernst Jandl - Abstract
Title in English: The anti-form in the Austrian poetry of the second half of the 20th Century: H.C. Artmann and Ernst Jandl

Joanna Rajkumar (Université Paris X - Nanterre)
Désir de langage et «aventures de lignes». Poésie et peinture chez Baudelaire, Hofmannsthal et Michaux - Abstract
Title in English: Desire of language and adventures of lines, poetry and painting in the work of Baudelaire, Hofmannsthal and Michaux

David Christoffel (EHESS, Paris)
Opéra et pas-opéras de Tarkos - Abstract
Title in English: Opera and non-operas of Tarkos

Thierry Orfila (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
Le Réenchantement du monde dans la poésie de Marguerite Yourcenar - Abstract
Title in English: Reenchanting the world in Marguerite Yourcenar’s poetry

Edoardo Esposito (Università di Milano)
La poesia secondo Fortini - Comments on «Se tu vorrai sapere…». Cinque lezioni su Franco Fortini, a cura di Paolo Giovannetti, Milano: Edizioni Punto Rosso, 2005 and some reflections on F. Fortini's poetry
.

Book review - Jacopo Masi (Università di Bologna)
Philippe Jaccottet, De la poésie. Entretien avec Reynald André Chalard, Arléa, Paris, 2005

Ambra Zorat (Université Paris IV- Sorbonne)
Intorno a libertà e prigionia: alcune riflessioni su Variazioni Belliche di Amelia Rosselli
Title in English: On Freedom and Captivity: some reflections on Variazioni Belliche by Amelia Rosselli
Abstract
Due to her linguistic experimentalism and her attempt at unmasking mystifying cultural and poetic forms, the poetry of Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) can be compared to the experience of Gruppo 63. On the other hand, her adoption of a closed metric form, which she theorized in the essay Spazi metrici included in Variazioni Belliche (1964), shows how distant her poetry is from the open forms employed by the Italian Neoavantgard. In my article I will try to show how the discourse on form and anti-form in Amelia Rosselli’s poetry, and in particular in her collection Variazioni belliche, proves to be tragically intertwined with the reflection that the poet specularly develops on a thematic level around the issue of freedom and the strictly connected issue of captivity.
Keywords: Amelia Rosselli, freedom, captivity, group 63

Guillaume Artous-Bouvet (Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis)
Une lecture de Celan: di-visions de la forme
Title in English: A reading of Celan: di-visions of the form
Abstract

The opposition between form and anti-form may seem alien to the works of Paul Celan: indeed his poetry calls for other names than morpho-phonetics. It may be that Celan tried to situate himself beyond the dividing line between formal and antiformal, in a place where language, articulated in its breaking, isn’t but the sheer judgement of schibboleth, nothing but a secret whisper, a “chiffre du chiffre”, according Derrida’s formula. The collection Von Schwelle zu Schwelle includes a piece titled Zwiegestalt, which means double “figure” or “form” – “biform” one could say. A “biformal form” is precisely a form split by the mirage of its reflection, like a form which is given a form for no other reason than to favour its division. It is undoubtedly out of this duplicity of form that we shall start rethinking the opposition between form and anti-form.
Keywords: Celan, language, schiboleth, duplicity of form

Regina Patzak (Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis)
Die Anti- Form in der österreichischen Dichtung in der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel HC Artmann und Ernst Jandl

Title in English: The Anti-form in the Austrian Poetry of the Latter Half of the 20th Century, as exemplified in the works of HC Artmann and Ernst Jandl
Abstract
HC Artmann (1921-2000) and E. Jandl (1925-2000), the two poets here considered, innovated the bucolic literary production in Austrian dialect. It is an experimental poetic genre employing clichéd themes which often drifted into triviality and macabre. Members of the Wiener Gruppe, Artmann and Jandl have the critique of the language elaborated by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as their basis and move from the idea that the sentence is an image of the reality. The two authors develop this concept employing expressionist, surrealist and dada elements in order to create an ensemble of sentences. They no longer pose the question of form and anti-form in poetry, since their writing is only determined by the reality and the way the poet peirceives it. Within the philosophical, intellectual and cultural context of the 20th Century, their poetry is not anti-formal, but rather other-formal.
Keywords: dialect, philosophy of language, anti-form, other-form, Artmann, Jandl

Joanna Rajkumar (Université Paris X - Nanterre)
Désir de langage et «aventures de lignes». Poésie et peinture chez Baudelaire, Hofmannsthal et Michaux
Title in English: Desire of language and adventures of lines, poetry and painting in the work of Baudelaire, Hofmannsthal and Michaux
Abstract

The thought upon the limits of language invites to think the link between the borders of poetic and graphic signs. Following the evolution from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, from Baudelaire to Michaux, I analyse the poetic expression of a desire of language, “la rage de l’expression” of Francis Ponge, that guides the research of new forms, forms to invest and forms to change for the poetry looking for a place and a way of metamorphosis
Keywords: representation, limits, correspondences, alterity, shift, esthetical independence


David Christoffel (EHESS, Paris)
Opéra et pas-opéras de Tarkos
Title in English: Opera and non-operas of Tarkos
Abstract
What does it happen if infinitives become lyric subjects?
The cage
, the libretto of opera written by the poet Christophe Tarkos in 1999, offers some formal specificities which distinguish it from the poetic writings of the author. We develop how the kind imposes some connotations on enunciatives ambivalences. Because the prospect for an anti-opera is as incongruous as the search for a discrete distribution is enthralling. Initially, in opera as in poetry, the texts of Tarkos are strictly interdependent of their object and dramatize their dynamics at the rhythm of the poem. Mainly, the uncertain enunciation, more or less supported by the kind where they are, give a poetry which wants to be revolutionary, each time differently.
Keywords: opera, statement, music and poetry, Christophe Tarkos, objective poetry

Thierry Orfila (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
Le Réenchantement du monde dans la poésie de Marguerite Yourcenar
Title in English: Reenchanting the world in Marguerite Yourcenar’s poetry
Abstract
All throughout the 20th Century, and in particular after World War II, we have been assisting to a process of secularization, whose corollary has been disenchantment of the world. Max Weber theorized it already in 1913. Marguerite Yourcenar, in her Diagnostic de l’Europe, states that “Our civilization at a whole has realized that it has stopped being”. In Approches du tantrisme she condemns the “irreparable mistake of the Western World, [that is] conceptualizing the complexity of human substance in the antithetic form soul-body, and not being able to escape that antithesis but denying the soul”. Art, and poetry in particular, could be a means to fight this “decadence”. In a spirit of synthesis of Knowledge, Marguerite Yourcenar attempts at connecting, like the fathers of Humanism did in relation to the Ancient schools, the Western and the Eastern worlds.
Keywords
: Marguerite Yourcenar, poetry, reenchanting, transcendence, tradition, wisdom

Bibliography
Presentation of Issue n. 2

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