... in productive tension with the poem taken as bare statement. De Man completely misconstrues the significance of the French poems when he claims that they “correspond to the renunciation of the euphonic seduction of language” (55). On the contrary, Rilke’s late French poetry contains lyrics more intensely...

... with the younger Moroccan generation—as were the many poetry readings he gave to audiences that often numbered in the thousands” ( Joris and Tengour 715). Zrika wrote in Arabic, as opposed to Menebhi’s French (the political language of Morocco), and his early work was, as Laâbi describes, “brutal, disheveled...

... Arabic poem” (3). While Fakhreddine discusses the Arab poets’ engagement with European poetry, reading, translating, and publishing these poems in their literary magazines, she goes on to assert, while acknowledging some influence of French poetry on the Shiʿr movement and the emergence of the prose...

... register the “hermeticism, complexity, and exuberant language” charac- teristic of “poems, especially experimental poems” (241), francophone postcolo- nial studies has much to learn from lyric theorists, particularly from the “immensely rich field” of “French poetry studies” (7–8); conversely, inasmuch...

... to pre-Islamic poems in Arabic to modern German and French poetry to contemporary American and anglophone verse, both traditional and experimental. Its impressive range of material is matched by its meticulous nesting infrastructure, reproduced for dizzier readers in outline form at the introduction’s...

..., and English, one of the languages of his captors. He selected and arranged the poetry into lyric sequences in French and English, and near the end of his life he created a “selected lyrics” sequence which he then had trans- 6 Deleuze and Guattari treat the literature of the Prague Jews...

....  — ​Maurice Blanchot, L’Écriture du désastre NE OF THE GREAT MISSED OPORTUNITIES of twentieth-century liter- Oary studies remains the possibility of reading post-romantic French poetry with a full recognition of theoretical developments that were taking place, for the most part, in German...

... language lends itself to art more readily than his native one, the writer himself suggests that his art arises out of the tension between his two languages. The third part of the essay examines some of the novel’s many references to French poetry in relation to Makine’s insistence on the artistic...

... referring to his poems, his understanding of this concept differs from “free verse” in English poetry as defined by T. E. Hulme and F. S. Flint in the first decades of the twentieth century as well as from verse libre in nineteenth-century French poetics ( Hulme 59–67 ). The aural aspect of modernist...

...” of Madagascan hain-teny and its effects on French poetry after Mallarmé (22–26) as well as on the understanding of speech in terms of agonistics and performance that defined Marcel Granet’s Sinology and post-Durkheimian ethnology (28). Hain-teny , Paulhan observed, involved a conflict between debating...

... French ones. The descrip- tive, plastic aesthetics of the nineteenth-century French Parnassians served as an important source for Acmeism, which emphasized the material quality of the world, verbal precision, and an ideal of harmonious fusion between poetry and the visual arts. Fascinated by various...

... of versification that evolve in different languages. The attitude to rich rhymes is known to undergo dramatic change in the course of the history of Russian verse. In Table 3 , based on Mikhail Gasparov’s data, a high point falls on 1745–80, the period of the strongest influence of French poetry. In later...

... response, the complicity of the poet-narrator is central to an understanding of his war poetry. In “The French Prisoner,” for example, the description of an inmate’s squashed feet and “gibbering, bestial ela- tion” is both precise, as an example of primary witnessing, and discomforting...

... and Found in Black Translation: Langston Hughes's Translations of French- and Spanish-Language Poetry, His Hispanic and Francophone Translators, and the Fashioning of Radical Black Subjectivities . Diss. UCLA , 2007 . Ann Arbor : UMI , 2007. ATT 3302521 : 1 – 562 . Klerh Harvey . Heyday...

..., Provence and Sicily, where no other cause can be found than the influence of the Saracens. (1.272) Far from being the effect of a translatio studii from Rome to the modern genius of the French Provence, Romance poetry is then the fruit of the accidental his- torical encounter of Europe and Islam...

... ( Brainard, I Remember 30 ). (Brainard does mention actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, twice [25, 147].) When Perec transported “I remember” poetry into the French, he performed a significant shift in uptake, eradicating altogether the Venn diagram circle of sexuality and confession (which he reserved for his...

... was prosecuting Edward III’s cross-channel claims, albeit without his father’s determination. What, then, did it mean to be English’s king in a land where — at court, in Parliament, in law, and in commerce — French and Anglo-French were spoken and written alongside English, and at a time when French...

...: the war with France. When Chaucer penned his exhortation to Lewis, their king was prosecuting Edward III’s cross-channel claims, albeit without his father’s determination. What, then, did it mean to be English’s king in a land where — at court, in Parliament, in law, and in commerce — French...

... was prosecuting Edward III’s cross-channel claims, albeit without his father’s determination. What, then, did it mean to be English’s king in a land where — at court, in Parliament, in law, and in commerce — French and Anglo-French were spoken and written alongside English, and at a time when French...

...-century philosophical poetry and medieval French Romance or Lyric (from Jan Ziolkowski through Sylvia Huot), this book’s final chapters on Alain de Lille, the Roman de Renart, and Guillaume de Machaut will seem exercises in mere paraphrase. In the end, the “Middle Ages” that emerges from Fiction...