In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and Salut centres on the relationship between poet Michel Deguy and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Translations of two essays, "Of Contemporaneity" by Deguy and "How to Name" by Derrida, allow Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert to develop the implications of this singular intellectual friendship. In these thinkers' efforts to reinvent secular forms of the sacred, such as the singularity of the name, and especially poetic naming, Deguy, by adopting a Derridean programme of the impossible, and Derrida, by developing Deguy's ethics of naming...

Poetes francais du 21eme siecle: entretiens est un document unique sur une periode fascinante de la litterature francaise contemporaine. Le livre est un recueil d entretiens menes par l universitaire Nathalie Wourm, qui identifie tout un nouveau courant de poesie francaise au tournant du 21eme siecle. Cet ouvrage comprend les entretiens des poetes Olivier Cadiot, Pierre Alferi, Anne Portugal, Anne-James Chaton, Nathalie Quintane, Charles Pennequin, Christophe Fiat, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Jerome Game, Eric Sadin, Jean-Marie Gleize, Christophe Hanna, Vannina Maestri, Jacques Sivan, et...

Following the footsteps of Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano, Anne Mounic explores the relationships between poetry and philosophy, trying to understand why Plato dismissed poets from his Republic and thus drew an enduring dividing line between reason and myth, reason and imagination. Various instances of poetic dissidence are analysed from a poet's viewpoint, and the connections between existential philosophy and poetry are highlighted. From Kierkegaard to Lequier, via Shestov, the common ground is the attention to the beginning ‒ the act of subjective consciousness shaping time and...

Dans La Miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, divers artistes contemporains et spécialistes en architecture, littérature ou psychologie clinique s’interrogent sur les nouvelles fonctions ludiques, didactiques, cognitives, artistiques de la miniature depuis le début des années 1960. In La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, contemporary artists and specialists in architecture, literature and clinical psychology focus on the new playful, cognitive, didactic and artistic functions of the miniature since the early 1960s.

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines the very recent work of nine major contemporary French and Francophone writers : Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stétié, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, André Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson and Jacques Dupin. The issue of writing’s complex relation to the experience of the earth is of central pertinence, involving questions of dreaming, voice, figurativity, emotion, desire, revolt, metaphysics, meaning, poiein and being. Discussion entails close reading of works as well as broad...

À travers le prisme du nom propre et sa référentialité, Réalités pseudonymes explore la trame de la réalité dans la littérature et les arts à l’heure où les sociétés glissent de modalités analogiques à des modalités numériques de la médiation. Through the lens of the proper name and its referential mechanisms, Réalités pseudonyms explores the fabric of reality in French literature and arts as societies shift from analog to digital modalities of mediation.

La littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document, des écritures d’enquête et d’information qui refusent la fiction. Ce volume vise est à inventorier et à comprendre les territoires de la non-fiction, désormais devenu un genre littéraire essentiel. The literature of the 21st century begins with the triumph of the document, the investigative and informative writings that reject fiction. The aim of this volume is to inventory and understand the territories of non-fiction, which has now become an essential literary genre.

The richness and diversity of poetic voices in France since the mid-twentieth century sharpen the challenge of charting the poetic landscape in ways that are accessible and cohesive. Since poetry in France has long demonstrated a predisposition to philosophical questions. Palimpsests of the Real in Recent French Poetry reads the work of six poets through the lens of the Pre-Socratics. The poets discussed range from the well-known – Jacques Dupin, André du Bouchet, Eugène Guillevic – to the lesser celebrated – Jean-Louis Chrétien, Céline Zins, and Emmanuel Hocquard. What binds...