The double cipher: Encounter between word and image in the works of three contemporary French poets: Bonnefoy, Tardieu, Michaux.
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Title
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The double cipher: Encounter between word and image in the works of three contemporary French poets: Bonnefoy, Tardieu, Michaux.
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Identifier
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AAI9000075
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identifier
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9000075
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Creator
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Williams, Adelia V.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Rosette C. Lamont
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Date
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1989
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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 | Fine Arts | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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Among recent critical trends is the interartistic approach which has set out to consider relationships among the arts, especially between the visual arts and literature. Within twentieth-century French studies, this critical stance is manifested in studies of what has been called "poesie critique." This tradition is said to begin with Charles Baudelaire's Salons and his poem Les phares. It continues with increasing dynamism in our own century from Apollinaire's Calligrammes (1918) and his critical writings on modern art, through the works of the Surrealists, to the efforts of poets of the post war generation.;This study sets out to examine the "poete critique" tradition in order to reconsider this somewhat vague term which has been employed to include a wide variety of disparate endeavors. Rather than consider the vast number of writers who have treated the relationship between the verbal and visual arts, we have chosen to concentrate on three figures each of whom represents a different aspect of the phenomenon. Though they do not belong to a same movement or share a similar poetics, Yves Bonnefoy, Jean Tardieu, and Henri Michaux, have all produced a corpus of works pertaining to, or inspired by, the visual arts, which constitutes a central portion of their entire oeuvre. As the focus of this investigation, these works reflect germinal trends and developments in modern and post-modern theory. They further our understanding, not only of artistic expression and of the relationship of French poetry to the arts, but of major trends in modern thought and praxis.;Because each poet manifests his concern for the arts in a personal and distinct way, our approach to their works will of necessity vary in each case. The intent is to demonstrate the complex and multi-faceted depth with which word and image have variously fused for three contemporary French poets, and to put forward the thesis that the so-called "poete critique" tradition is not simply one of poets writing about or appreciating art.;We seek to address the multiple motives that have driven these poets to formulate a poetic vision informed by profound reflection on and consideration of the visual arts, and to pose a problematics of the visual image posited against the verbal. Thus the reader can expect to discover what unites and what distinguishes Bonnefoy, Tardieu and Michaux's contributions to the understanding of the vast dialogue between poetic and plastic creation.
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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.
