The poetry of Jacques Dupin: A reader response approach.
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Title
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The poetry of Jacques Dupin: A reader response approach.
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Identifier
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AAI8821081
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identifier
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8821081
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Creator
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Fetzer, Glenn Williams.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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1988
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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Dupin's quest for transcendence situates him in the Orphic tradition. His poetry, rooted in language and born through language nevertheless aspires to something beyond language. His search for the absolute ranks him with poets Bonnefoy, du Bouchet, Reverdy, and Char--all of whom conceive of poetry as a means to an end rather than an end in itself.;This work studies the space of the poetry of Jacques Dupin and opens Blanchot's notion of the space literature, namely, that undefined (and undefinable) opening which draws the writer to his work and keeps him writing. The inexhaustible domaine of poetry cannot be observed directly; it can only be probed and approached by studying its effects; that is, the poems themselves. In studying the space which engenders Dupin's poetry, this work focuses on the effects of that space.;Beginning with Blanchot's assumption that readers and text are co-partners in the field of literary communication, this study posits the primacy of the reader in unlocking the text and adopts the reader-response perspective articulated by Stanley Fish as its guiding methodology. The emphasis of the study is on the process of unraveling emerging characteristics of Dupin's poetic space. Thus, the changing responses of the readers in making his way through the text are preferred to summarily drawn conclusions.;The scope of this study consists of Dupin's major collection of poetry from Gravir (1963) to Contumace (1986) as well as his play L'Eboulement (1977) and selected pieces from his poesie critique.;This study identifies nature imagery as signaling the confining territory which the poetic voice desires to transcend; violence as the modus operandi of the poet's creativity; gaps--thematic and textual--as indicators of the means of transcendence; the labyrinth as a model of the venture towards poetry's essence, night as a metaphor for the entire quest; and desire as a frame for the whole of Dupin's poetic endeavor.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
