In the flesh of the text : the poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart /
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| Author / Creator: | Broome, Peter, 1937- |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, c2008. |
| Description: | 270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine ; 47 Collection monographique Rodopi en littérature française contemporaine ; 47. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7246288 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bio-bibliography (p. [263]-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789042023666 904202366X |
