Biologie et poétologie
I examine two poems, “Le Récif de Corail” by José-Maria de Heredia and “Le Lac” by Leconte de Lisle and show how they reuse and re-functionalise motifs of biological knowledge – motifs that play an important role also in Haeckel’s works: The poets give them completely different meanings, realising a...
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Arts et Savoirs
2018
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | I examine two poems, “Le Récif de Corail” by José-Maria de Heredia and “Le Lac” by Leconte de Lisle and show how they reuse and re-functionalise motifs of biological knowledge – motifs that play an important role also in Haeckel’s works: The poets give them completely different meanings, realising a poetics of artistic virtuosity or engaging in a poetological debate against Romanticism. I show that, in this way, Leconte de Lisle’s “Le Lac” – a poem until now completely neglected – is a meticulous repeal of Lamartine’s “Le Lac”. |
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