Death and the problematics of representation in Bonnefoy's 'Du Mouvement et de l'Immobilite de Douve'
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Neophilologus
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This paper argues that the significance of death, a recurrent theme in Yves Bonnefoy's work, stems from the fact that it cannot be considered outside its relation to representation. Analyzing the different modalities and functions of death in Douve, this paper suggests that the passage from excarnation to incarnation, arguably the most important objective of Bonnefoy's poetic work, must be seen in relation to the passage from thematics to rhetoric, from the referential to the metalinguistic level. Considered against the philosophical opposition between the intelligible and the sensible, Douve is approached in the light of the transference it attempts to effect: from images of death to the death of the image and the singularity of naming.
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<Go to ISI>://000166702300004
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφική Σχολή. Τμήμα Φιλολογίας