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Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France

Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France

Gavronsky, Serge

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520087933
ISBN13: 9780520087934
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 1 1994
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.57 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.

As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replacing the formalism of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. In his substantial introduction, Gavronsky notes how the ideological definition of writing (écriture) has given way to more open forms of writing. Human experiences of the most ordinary kinds are finding a place in the text.

These interviews offer a view of the poets' and writers' creative processes and range over such topics as current literary theory, the impact of American poetry in France, and the place of feminism in contemporary French writing. Each interview is accompanied by samples of the writer's work in French and in Gavronsky's English translations.

Toward a New Poetics provides a highly informative cultural and critical perspective on contemporary writing in France, introducing us to works which are now transforming the idea of literature itself.

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