Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
This study attempts to account for Armand Schwerner’s “archeological poetics” as expressed in his masterwork, The Tablets, a serial text whose material is the reconstruction of Sumero-Akkadian clay tablets which entail a complex meditation upon memory and archives as a founding substratum of both t...
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | This study attempts to account for Armand Schwerner’s “archeological poetics” as expressed in his masterwork, The Tablets, a serial text whose material is the reconstruction of Sumero-Akkadian clay tablets which entail a complex meditation upon memory and archives as a founding substratum of both the individual psyche and the collective institutions recording its history. I argue that in composing his series of poems, the poet’s purpose was to reflect upon and enact the consequences of writing in a mixed poetic mode which freely combines the lyric and the epic. This combination is given visual shape thanks to an elaborate collage turning each page of the volume into a typographical experiment—a technique that destabilizes perception and radically calls easy identifications into question. Far from simply being a postmodern trick, Schwerner’s ambitious archeological method leads the reader to reassess the ethical and political value of poetry as it meets history. |
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