Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale

This paper is simultaneously reflexive, polemic and poetic as it raises the central issues of poetry’s status in today’s world. The author expresses his discomfort with the devaluation of the poetic text in times of the merchandization of culture and of the transformation of presses into business ve...

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Main Author: Jacques Darras
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Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques 2017-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/1938
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description This paper is simultaneously reflexive, polemic and poetic as it raises the central issues of poetry’s status in today’s world. The author expresses his discomfort with the devaluation of the poetic text in times of the merchandization of culture and of the transformation of presses into business ventures. He also worries about the increasing isolation of an elitist poetry based on hermeticism and confidentiality. He takes the reader back to a European tradition, found in Rilke notably, that assigns other missions to the poem. Committed to its present times and its political and economic conditions, poetry must battle on the same grounds as all the arts to address an audience beyond the narrow circles of poetry specialists. Through the invention of new forms that coincide with today’s world, such as slam poetry, the poem can find (again) the channels of its widest distribution, whereby the poet opens new ways and discovers new orders.
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Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale
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Rainer Maria Rilke
poetic formalism
poetic avant-garde
title Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale
title_full Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale
title_fullStr Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale
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title_short Au-delà des avant-gardes. Lettre au jeune poète que je me sens redevenir au retour d’un voyage en Europe centrale
title_sort au dela des avant gardes lettre au jeune poete que je me sens redevenir au retour d un voyage en europe centrale
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