Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?

This article examines what is taking place in the forty-two sonnets of the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda (2013) by the British poet John Fuller. Is something actually happening in these poems? If so, where, and how? The sonnet sequence offers uncanny depictions of apparently insignificant event...

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Main Author: Aurélien Saby
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2019-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/8772
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description This article examines what is taking place in the forty-two sonnets of the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda (2013) by the British poet John Fuller. Is something actually happening in these poems? If so, where, and how? The sonnet sequence offers uncanny depictions of apparently insignificant events questioning stable bearings while suggesting that something deeper is going on elsewhere, beyond the poet’s reach. Action is generated by tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the visible and the invisible, the human world and nature or matter, engaging the reader in the mysteries of transformation and metamorphosis. These sketches are works in progress allowing us to catch sight of a world unified through numerous underlying connections and networks countering the pending threat of dispersal of disintegration.
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Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
Sillages Critiques
Andalusia
Bergson
connection
John Fuller
metamorphosis
contemporary British poetry
title Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
title_full Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
title_fullStr Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
title_full_unstemmed Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
title_short Is Something Taking Place in the Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda by John Fuller?
title_sort is something taking place in the sketches from the sierra de tejeda by john fuller
topic Andalusia
Bergson
connection
John Fuller
metamorphosis
contemporary British poetry
url https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/8772
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