Toutes les îles sont secrètes : notes sur quelques métaphores insulaires dans la poésie contemporaine (Saint-John Perse, Jean-Claude Renard, Jean Laude, Yves Bonnefoy, Lorand Gaspar, Benoît Conort)
The question of space is one of contemporary poetry’s major issues. Space, however, a notion so commonly associated with text, and of which island would only be a particular hyponym, is a hybrid notion, a complex sensitive/tangible schema which also encompasses time, the subject, in other words a r...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Transtext(e)s Transcultures
2009
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The question of space is one of contemporary poetry’s major issues. Space, however, a notion so commonly associated with text, and of which island would only be a particular hyponym, is a hybrid notion, a complex sensitive/tangible schema which also encompasses time, the subject, in other words a relationship between seeing and saying. This is the reason why space, as it appears in the poem, in its processes of reference and textual organization, is part of the metaphorical horizon connecting real space, internal space and textual space.If the insular condition can help explain those choices, and the poetics of singular inflections, to the extent that certain motifs (closure, retreat, the elementary) could be made into insularity’s schemas, to speak of a relationship between poem and insularity is inevitably to confront two singular “realities”, language and space, and to describe thus implicitly an insular metaphor What of this insular metaphor? What does it tell us about the poem and about the interiority it represents in that modernity of “I is another”, a modernity which Michel Collot splits in two sides, one, “hermetic”, advocating textual closure and one “hermeneutic”, seeking to “open the text to what surpasses it”. The island, an ambivalent space, at once closure and endless opening on the horizon, could very well be a “fabulous horizon” for the poem, a metaphor leading to the imagining of interiority, a singular organization of “saying”, a dispositio from which originates a voice. It is these, at times ambiguous, meanings of the insular metaphor in modern and contemporary poetry ((Saint-John Perse, Jean-Claude Renard, Jean Laude, Yves Bonnefoy, Lorand Gaspar, Benoît Conort) that this article attempts to elucidate. |
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