| dc.contributor.author | Brophy, Michael John Gerard. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:34:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1990 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN64563 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55225 | |
| dc.description | This study seeks to explore the two-fold interrogation involving self and other(ness) in the recent poetic works of Jacques Dupin, Yves Bonnefoy, Bernard Noel and Eugene Guillevic. Selected works published since 1980 are given close attention in an effort to examine at once the harshness and the alacrity of a writing that endeavours to uncover all that it is not, and that commits itself only as unfinished, unfinishable composition whose sense remains shifting and elusive. In a form that alternates between rupture and renewal, provoking ofttimes the pulsing onslaught of elements merging and scattering, these poets call into question the supposed wholeness of the self in order to highlight the role of the other and quash all models of conceptual thought that deny the fleeting character of being in favour of a purely cerebralized and thus alienating stability. | en_US |
| dc.description | Under examination then, at a linguistic and ontological level, are the different modes of otherness that determine in the case of each poet the abolition of an isolated, closed self, and that restore to the self the promise of an immediate becoming in the limiting and shifting coordinates of space and time--a becoming which is an uncombing, an undoing, linked paradoxically to being's vast potential as each moment dissolves and renews the intensity of human presence. | en_US |
| dc.description | The dissertation highlights the dialectical process which these poets embrace, a process which challenges radically the conceptual (im)position of the sign. This process involves an exploration of difference, opposition, contradiction, the construction of a shattered and plural perspective in an attempt to unearth the stifled possibilities of being and expression. The text is transformed into a site of dislocation and experimentation. Its divided and riven elements express the urge to refute all boundaries and limits, and to touch all that remains excluded or other in relation to a purely conceptual world functioning as a closed, inert system of reference within discourse. The poets set off a movement of inclusion and diversification by abolishing the niceties of form and the artifice of rhetorical orchestration, and it is this movement which is focussed upon through a close reading of the selected works, a reading guided by a number of approaches to formal and semantic analysis but, above all, open, flexible, attentive to what distinguishes each poet as much as to the tendencies that unite all four as a powerfully dialoguing collective voice. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1990. | en_US |
| dc.language | fre | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Literature, Romance. | en_US |
| dc.title | L'interrogation de soi et de l'autre chez quatre poetes francais contemporains. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
