Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy

Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy
Author: Emily McLaughlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019258944X

This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance examines the affinities that exist between Bonnefoy's poetry and Nancy's philosophy. It analyses how Bonnefoy experiments with the poem's act of address, its material disposition, and sonorous performance. It scrutinises how he foregrounds the bodily and material forces that are at play within language in order to makes us feel the diverse worldly forces that are active within us and to make us perceive our own human existence in more interconnected ways. Exploring how Bonnefoy and Nancy share the desire to resist detached ways of perceiving existence, this book analyses how they present interaction as the generative dynamic that drives all existence and use the text's resonant play to make us aware of how all bodies—human, material, or poetic—emerge from a complex interplay of worldly forces.

Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy

Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy
Author: Emily McLaughlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192589431

This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance examines the affinities that exist between Bonnefoy's poetry and Nancy's philosophy. It analyses how Bonnefoy experiments with the poem's act of address, its material disposition, and sonorous performance. It scrutinises how he foregrounds the bodily and material forces that are at play within language in order to makes us feel the diverse worldly forces that are active within us and to make us perceive our own human existence in more interconnected ways. Exploring how Bonnefoy and Nancy share the desire to resist detached ways of perceiving existence, this book analyses how they present interaction as the generative dynamic that drives all existence and use the text's resonant play to make us aware of how all bodies—human, material, or poetic—emerge from a complex interplay of worldly forces.

Multiple Arts

Multiple Arts
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804739542

This collection of writings by the renowned French critic and poet Jean-Luc Nancy delves into the history of philosophy in order to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi, representing a mix of philosophical essays, writings about artworks and the author's own artistic creations.

Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Twentieth-Century French Poetry
Author: Hugues Azérad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2010-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521886422

A selection of modern French poems with critical commentary, glossary of literary terms, biographies and bibliography.

The Pleasure in Drawing

The Pleasure in Drawing
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823252329

Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form—of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings, suspensions, and permanent interruptions. Recalling that drawing and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that drawing designates a design that remains without project, plan, or intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation), which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic,filmic, choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic senses. If drawing is not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension specific to itself. Rather, drawing allows the pleasure in and of drawing, the gesture of a desire that remains in excess of all knowledge, to come to appearance. Situating drawing in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around questions concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force. Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of “sketchbooks” on drawing, composed of a broad range of quotations on art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.

Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being

Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being
Author: Michael Bishop
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004367764

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad contextualisation and a sensitivity to interrelevancies from writer to writer. Bishop’s book is intended as a companion to his 2014 Dystopie et poïein, agnose et reconnaissance. Seize études sur la poésie française et francophone contemporaine.

Doing

Doing
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: French List
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Act (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9780857427847

Originally published in the French in 2016 by âEditions Galilâee.

Thinking Poetry

Thinking Poetry
Author: J. Acquisto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137329289

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.

Ideal Code, Real World

Ideal Code, Real World
Author: Brad Hooker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198250692

Begins by explaining and arguing for certain criteria for assessing normative moral theories. Then argues that these criteria lead to a rule-consequentialist moral theory.