The Fountains of Neptune ou l'écriture alchimique
This article examines the numerous water metaphors at work in Rikki Ducornet’s The Fountains of Neptune and suggests that water, being a most mutable substance, is used as an agent of linguistic transformations reminiscent of alchemical transmutations. However, this project, which aims at “substant...
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cairn-RFEA_093_0044RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2002-3-page-44?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.093.0044 The Fountains of Neptune ou l'écriture alchimique Pellegrin, Jean-Yves2002 AlchimieEauHybridationRêveRikki DucornetAlchemyDreamHybridizationRikki DucornetWaterfre Revue française d’études américaines | 93 | 3 | 2002-09-01 | p. 44-53 | 0397-7870 RFEA_09343 This article examines the numerous water metaphors at work in Rikki Ducornet’s The Fountains of Neptune and suggests that water, being a most mutable substance, is used as an agent of linguistic transformations reminiscent of alchemical transmutations. However, this project, which aims at “substantializing” writing, miscarries as words fail to turn into things. Yet this very failure is what confers its specific and almost magic power on Ducornet’s writing.Cairn free access |
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This article examines the numerous water metaphors at work in Rikki Ducornet’s The Fountains of Neptune and suggests that water, being a most mutable substance, is used as an agent of linguistic transformations reminiscent of alchemical transmutations. However, this project, which aims at “substantializing” writing, miscarries as words fail to turn into things. Yet this very failure is what confers its specific and almost magic power on Ducornet’s writing. |
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