Abstract
This chapter considers the consequences of the fact that the historical periodization and theoretical models which inform the composition of contemporary poetry all reveal different ways of thinking about the lyric. Although these poets state that their projects should not be understood in the terms of an avant-garde program, the chapter demonstrates that their work does not take place outside of historical and political concerns. It suggests that the intention behind the repurposing of textual residues is not to suspend communication, but rather to increase modes of attention. Direct contact with our mediatized attention and pragmatic use of poetry remains very much present for contemporary poets. The chapter finishes with an assessment of the impact of this literary enterprise on more recent poetic experiments. It demonstrates that poetry can no longer be defined in terms of ‘genre’ or ‘discipline’, but should instead be thought of in terms of ‘practice’.
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Richard Rorty, ‘Inquiry as Recontextualization: An Anti-Dualist Account of Interpretation’ in Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 110.
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Hocquard , ‘Tout le monde se ressemble’, Ma haie, 236–237.
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Hocquard , ‘Dix leçons de grammaire’ in Le Cours de Pise, 408.
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Marjorie Perloff, ‘New Definitions of Lyric: A Response’ in New Definitions of Lyric, ed. Mark Jeffreys (New York: Garland Press, 1997), 252.
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‘Interview avec C. Hanna’ in Poètes français du 21ème siècle: entretiens, edited by Nathalie Wourm, 77.
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Yves Citton, Pour une écologie de l’attention (Paris: Seuil, 2014), 201. Trans. Barnaby Norman, The Ecology of Attention (Cambridge: Polity, 2016), 139.
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Emmanuelle Pireyre, ‘Fictions documentaires’ in Devenirs du roman (Actes Sud, Naïve/Inculte, 2007). Accessed February 20, 2018. http://www.emmanuellepireyre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Art.-Fictions-documentaires.pdf
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Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Petite écologie des études littéraires: pourquoi et comment étudier la littérature (Vincennes: Thierry Marchaisses, 2011), 112–3.
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Dominique Viart, Bruno Vercier, La Littérature française au présent: héritage, modernité, mutations (Paris: Bordas, 2005), 512.
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Jan Baetens, ‘Pierre Alferi’s “allofiction”’, 68.
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‘Cap au mieux: Entretien avec Olivier Cadiot’. Interview by Philippe Mangeot & Pierre Zaoui, October 2008, Vacarme 45. Accessed July 22, 2014. https://vacarme.org/article1660.html
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See Pierre Alferi, Parler (Paris: P.O.L, 2017).
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La tentation littéraire de l’art contemporain, edited by Pascal Mougin (Paris: Presse du réel, 2017).
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In Profils de célibataires (Alferi , Cadiot, RLG 2) Closky collects samples from lonely heart pages found in newspapers. In L’Encyclopédie des guerres Jouannais attempts to create via a montage of quotes, images, sequences of films classified by entries and stemming from the Iliad and culminating with the World War II, a synoptic view on the atrocities of the human condition linked to wars.
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La Rédaction, Les Berthier (Paris: Questions Théoriques, 2012).
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Gérard Genette, Bardadrac (Paris: Seuil, 2012), 187.
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Barda, J. (2019). Conclusion: Toward an Ecology of Attention. In: Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry . Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15293-2_6
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