Negotiating Trans Affect in Luka Holmegaard’s Havet i munden by Tais Terletskaja

“… Identifying a dominant affective polarization pertaining to contemporary trans discourse and the constraints this poses in accounting for trans experience, the article turns to the sphere of trans poetics. Through a reading of Havet i munden (2023) [The Ocean in Your Mouth] by Danish author Luka Holmegaard, the article discerns poetic strategies for navigating the politically pressurized present. …”
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« Doctrine des scandales » et scandale de la doctrine : Les sermons de John Donne sur Mathieu 18.7 by Guillaume Fourcade

“…This transformation is reflected and enacted by their halting logic, ethics and poetics.…”
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B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart by Vanessa Guignery

“…This double movement (revealing the distance, reducing the distance) will be analysed in relation to Johnson’s theory based on a poetics of truth which rejects the lies of the novelistic form and places the autobiographical subject at the heart of the work. …”
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Le Remix comme forme littéraire : essai sur les publications récentes de Caroline Bergvall by Vincent Broqua

“…But Bergvall’s remixability is not formal or technological, it is a poetics and a politics of multiplicity that seeks to define how to live together now.…”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le désir amoureux by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…Apparently minor, this chapter is emblematic of a poetics founded on the ellipsis, mingling play and seriousness.…”
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Polyphonies coloniales by Caroline Déodat

“…This article shows, on the one hand, a "macro" dimension relating to the ideologies of race, gender and colonialism that traverse the poetics of Sega, and on the other hand, a "micro" dimension of these linguistic practices of Sega. …”
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Les Dynastes de Thomas Hardy : une poétique spectrale à l’œuvre contre la guerre by Annie Escuret

“…The aim of this paper is to examine Hardy’s poetic magnum opus, The Dynasts, as a spectro-poetics against war. …”
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The Making of Sami Ethnography: Contested Authorities and Negotiated Representations by Kristin Kuutma

“…This contribution analyzes the interplay of ethnographic and poetic agendas, the negotiation of synergetic or conflicting objectives in the production and editing of a seminal representation of the Sámi, Muitalus sámiid birra. …”
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Flaubert et Taine devant l’image by Bernard Vouilloux

“…These letters should be considered not so much from the point of view of Flaubertian poetics as that of the status given to mental images in what at the time was becoming a new academic discipline: psychology. …”
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Point de mire ou rythme du pire, la semaine comme temporalité paradoxale chez Flaubert by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…In his novels on contemporary mores Flaubert develops a poetics of modern times in which the weekly rhythm crystallizes temporal experiences that are a priori opposed. …”
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“You are next in line”: Moving down the Line(s) with Ron Padgett by Olivier Brossard

“…This essay examines line breaks as poetic hinges in the work of Ron Padgett: they are flexible spaces where the parts of the poem turn and articulate, the lines poised between conflicting forces, between formal interruption and syntactical momentum. …”
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Le journal comme palimpseste ? Une hypothèse sur l’hétérogénéité de la poétique flaubertienne dans Bouvard et Pécuchet by Laure Demougin

“…Assuming the presence of the newspaper in Bouvard et Pécuchet and reading the text from this prospect leads to focusing in particular on the character of Gorgu : in this paper, we aim to study Gorgu from the angle of a media poetics into the initial diegesis.…”
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Políticas/poéticas de la memoria en la Castilla medieval: mediación clerical y materialidad del saber en los poemas del Ms. Esc. K-III-4 (Libro de Apolonio, Vida de Santa María Egi... by Carina Zubillaga

“…The Spanish clergy of the 13th century carried out a cultural policy of transmission of knowledge and preservation of memory through a poetics based on the exemplary nature of texts pouring their teaching through the mediation process identified with the translation of Latin sources to the vernacular languages, promoting their dissemination to a wider lay audience. …”
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Un réseau de sources : figures de l’araignée dans Madame Bovary et La Tentation de saint Antoine by Irene Zanot

“…An image that has crossed literature since Antiquity, the spider appears in Flaubert’s pages like a leitmotif that recurs in several scenes where it carries major meanings for the artist’s poetics. The author fully exploits the versatility of this animal, which, as Sylvie Ballestra-Puech has shown, acquires a negative value in the Western iconographic and literary tradition. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Atkinson clearly signals her debt to Ovid in several epigraphs, but the overall impression left with readers who know Ovid only as a repository of classical myth has caused Atkinson’s remarkably inventive reception of Ovidian poetics to be misread. Atkinson uses the Latin poet’s interest in change and its often strange permutations as a way of interrogating contemporary concerns about consumerism, environmental degradation, and cultural forgetfulness, against a backdrop of post-apocalyptic fantasy. …”
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Aux sources du sensationnel : Wilkie Collins lecteur de l’abbé Prévost ? by Shelly Charles

“…It analyses the author’s particular strategy in amplifying this « true story » and tries to explain the more general pertinence of Prévost’s work as a journalist and a « documentary novelist » for the formation of Wilkie Collins’s poetics of fiction. A relation is thus established between Basil and Prévost’s Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, the relevance of which, more than a century after its publication, can be explained by the current success of another and most recent rewriting of Manon Lescaut : Dumas fils’s La Dame aux camélias...…”
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Coda: The War of Poetry: Duncan’s Heresies by Michael Heller

“…This article discusses how such derivations were both an embrace and a strategy, each leading to a supersession of a poetics that enlarged the notion of poetry, selfhood and possibility.…”
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Enfouissement du témoignage et archivage oraculaire dans Oracle Night de Paul Auster by François Hugonnier

“…The representational frames get entangled in a vertiginous mise en abyme, revealing the necessity of distancing the formulation of the unspeakable. Paul Auster’s poetics, founded on linguistic excavation and burial, enlightens his handling of the unarchivable in the fiction. …”
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Eliot’s Modernist Manifesto by Viorica Patea

“…The goal of this article is to rethink Eliot’s manifesto from the perspective of romantic and modernist poetics, and to reconcile the great disparity between Eliot the experimentalist avant-garde poet who advocates the aesthetics of fragmentation and the critic who pleads for the extinction of personality. …”
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«Sempre così sperduta ai margini della vita reale…» by Chiara Pasetti

“…It is a remarkable study not only of Flaubert’s early writings but also of his poetics and theories. Pozzi is the first in Italy to have dealt with Flaubert’s juvenilia, which she analyzes in detail for their literary and philosophical influences as well as their themes and style. …”
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