Josiane Paccaud-Huguet

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"Heart of darkness"

In this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Joseph Conrad's work and French culture and criticism. The book presents readings of Conrad's major texts by several generations of critics, such as Andr� Gide, Andr� Maurois, and Ram�n Fern�ndez, with generation approaching his works from a variety of angles while remaining attentive to the link between the artist and his work.

Conrad in France

Annie Ramel

Claude Maisonnat

This volumes includes a series of 17 selected essays, preceded by a methodological introduction, whose purpose is to offer a fresh outlook on the question of rewriting-reprising. The argument, taking for granted the phenomenon of intertextuality, develops along three main axes: the first one reconsiders the already debated issue of authority on post-structuralist premises, arguing that the origin of a text is untraceable. The second looks at a phenomenon often associated with reprising, especially in a post-colonial context: trauma, whether individual or historical, in relation to creative repetition. The third axis offers a re-reading of the question of voice, introducing the notion of the textual voice, understood as that part of the enunciative act over which the author has no control. When writers make of reprising a deliberate practise, we are tempted to believe that their position, between homage and pillage, presupposes the existence of a traceable source of the literary Word. We must however face the problematic nature of enunciation, the void on which is is founded. Which leads us to the proposition that the act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: a certain mode of organisation around that void. Besides, in a century of major man-made traumas, whose effect was the tearing up of social fabrics, reprising will assume a more complex significance: the symptomatic, repetitive stitching of what is being constantly ripped up.

The Paradoxes of Intertextuality

Rewriting/Reprising in Literature

Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur. Congrès

Michèle Rivoire

Les études de poétique ici réunies ont un référent commun : la littérature de langue anglaise. Deux poètes (George Herbert, William Wordsworth) y côtoient des romanciers. Le parcours de Lacan du structuralisme à la poésie, dessiné dans le dernier essai du volume, jette une lumière rétrospective sur l'ensemble de ces travaux.

Etudes de poétique

Adolphe Haberer

Université de Lyon II. Centre d'études et de recherches anglaises et nord-américaines

poésie, fiction, arts : domaine anglophone

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