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Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern

Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern

Sheringham, Michael

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Series: Selected Essays, Book 2

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1781884781
ISBN13: 9781781884782
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism, the age of André Breton (1896-1966), and the postmodernism of such contemporary poets as Pierre Alferi (1963-). For Sheringham, a sense of motion and plasticity flows through the last century of French poetry, and reveals itself through themes of rhythm, inspiration, sensation, love, colour and the city, both as an imaginative space and an incitement to new identities and ways of being in the world. It has been a rich century indeed for French poetry, and, in addition to Breton and Alferi, talents as singular yet also as representative as Victor Segalen, Guillaume Apollinaire, Raymond Queneau, Jules Supervielle, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Roubaud, Michel Deguy and Jacques RÉda all make appearances in these pages.

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