TY  - BOOK
AU  - Broome,Peter
TI  - In the Flesh of the Text: the Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart
T2  - Collection Monographique Rodopi en Littérature Française Contemporaine, 47
SN  - 9789401205580
AV  - PQ2662.A49 Z545 2008
U1  - 841.92 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Bancquart, Marie Claire
KW  - Literature
KW  - French poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Définition -- Trains -- Suite au dieu-lune -- Cariatides -- Carnet -- Habitée par une tendresse -- À la morte -- Bio-Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This closely focused study of the inner movements, dynamic tensions and tactile richness of an intensely sensual but deeply searching poetry, is the first full-length monograph devoted to one of France’s foremost contemporary woman poets. Marie-Claire Bancquart’s work explores, primarily through the vulnerabilities and sensitivities of the body (hence this book’s ‘carnal’ title), the possibility of releasing a cry: a salvation of language and spirit from indifference, abstraction and dehumanisation, a celebration of a moment’s reunion with the recreative vitality of the physical universe, an act of love in its most private yet cosmic expression. Bancquart has described her language as a ‘braille of the living’: minimal, interrupted and riddled with obscurities and gaps of the unsayable, but apprehending the world and composing its significance in a singularly tactile translation. This study will appeal to those keen to discover one of the most original voices of present-day European poetry, the distinctive poetic resonances of one of its most self-aware and vibrant female sensibilities, and the provocative orientations of ‘new writing’ traversed by the dilemmas and paradoxes of our own era
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205580
ER  -