Corps rêvés dans Scorch Atlas, de Blake Butler

In the absence of any definite individuals among its protagonists, Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas (featherproof press, 2009) stages the transformations of substances, both in its contents and its forms, partly through a refined elaboration of the visual aspect of the seemingly blotted or maculated pag...

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Autor principal: Tissut, Anne-Laure
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Publicado: 2013
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spelling cairn-RFEA_132_0048RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2012-2-page-48?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.132.0048 Corps rêvés dans Scorch Atlas, de Blake Butler Tissut, Anne-Laure2013 Blake Butlerlivre d'artistematériel/immatérieltempsartist's bookBlake Butlermaterial/immaterialtimefre Revue française d’études américaines | 132 | 2 | 2013-03-01 | p. 48-62 | 0397-7870 RFEA_13245 In the absence of any definite individuals among its protagonists, Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas (featherproof press, 2009) stages the transformations of substances, both in its contents and its forms, partly through a refined elaboration of the visual aspect of the seemingly blotted or maculated pages, meant to illustrate degradation. Decaying matter and bodies are told in an unheard-of language, constantly deviating from common uses and enhancing the play on sounds and rhythms. This paper aims at showing how the materiality of language in Scorch Atlas may paradoxically both reflect the desire to let the body express itself in words and in the book at large, and convey a secret aspiration towards immateriality as an attempt to escape the passing of time.Cairn free access
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Corps rêvés dans Scorch Atlas, de Blake Butler
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description In the absence of any definite individuals among its protagonists, Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas (featherproof press, 2009) stages the transformations of substances, both in its contents and its forms, partly through a refined elaboration of the visual aspect of the seemingly blotted or maculated pages, meant to illustrate degradation. Decaying matter and bodies are told in an unheard-of language, constantly deviating from common uses and enhancing the play on sounds and rhythms. This paper aims at showing how the materiality of language in Scorch Atlas may paradoxically both reflect the desire to let the body express itself in words and in the book at large, and convey a secret aspiration towards immateriality as an attempt to escape the passing of time.
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title Corps rêvés dans Scorch Atlas, de Blake Butler
title_short Corps rêvés dans Scorch Atlas, de Blake Butler
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