La forme d’une ville : Watermark de Joseph Brodsky

This short study of Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark (1992) discusses the poet’s visions of Venice and how they translate into writing. Three notions play a crucial part in this writing process: fusion, sensation and abstraction. The ultimate aim of this paper is to show how, for Brodsky, writing about Ve...

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Main Author: René Alladaye
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2009-12-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1474
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abstraction
architecture
fusion
larme
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title La forme d’une ville : Watermark de Joseph Brodsky
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title_full_unstemmed La forme d’une ville : Watermark de Joseph Brodsky
title_short La forme d’une ville : Watermark de Joseph Brodsky
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abstraction
architecture
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