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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Autor principal: Cazé, Antoine
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Publicado: 2005
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spelling cairn-RFEA_103_0050RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2005-1-page-50?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.103.0050 Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner Cazé, Antoine2005 archéologie/archiveArmandcollageépiquelyrismepoésieSchwernerarcheology/archiveArmandcollageepiclyricismpoetrySchwernerfre Revue française d’études américaines | 103 | 1 | 2005-02-01 | p. 50-63 | 0397-7870 RFEA_10353 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.Cairn free access
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Cazé, Antoine
Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
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Armand
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description 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.
author Cazé, Antoine
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title Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
title_short Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
title_full Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
title_fullStr Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
title_full_unstemmed Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d'Armand Schwerner
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