
Poetics of the Pretext
Reading Lautreamont
Roland-Francois Lack(Author)
University of Exeter Press
Published on 12. March 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-80413-122-0 (ISBN)
Description
Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautreamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and promoted to the vanguard of theoretical debate by the 'Telquelists' of the 1960s, but whose work has remained largely ignored or misinterpreted beyond a small circle of enthusiasts.
Poetics of the Pretext analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies to the foreground of contemporary critical debates around poetics, genre, intertextuality and influence. This book will make a major contribution to our understanding not only of the work of Lautreamont but also to the function of originality, imitation and plagiarism in the nineteenth century.
Comte de Lautreamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay.
Poetics of the Pretext analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies to the foreground of contemporary critical debates around poetics, genre, intertextuality and influence. This book will make a major contribution to our understanding not only of the work of Lautreamont but also to the function of originality, imitation and plagiarism in the nineteenth century.
Comte de Lautreamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay.
Reviews / Votes
The main focus here, . . . Is the Bloomian concept of the anxiety of influence in its six forms. Literary theory is combined with literary history of the period round Poesies in ways which will offer new approaches to the study of intertextuality. In particular, the treatment of the elision in Lautreamont of creativity with plagiarism may offer a way of reading late twentieth-century production of text, including critical theory. * Forum for Modern Language Studies * Roland-Francois Lack...proves himself to be not only a fine sleuth, learned and thorough, but also a clever exegete and theorist. * New Zealand Journal of French Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
681 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80413-122-0 (9781804131220)
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Roland-Francois Lack is Lecturer in French at University College London.