Taking a line from “Le crapaud” as its starting point, this article shows how Corbière constructs a poetics based on fragmenting norms or figures of the law, a poetics which works essentially through oxymoron. Whether in their metre or images, acoustically or visually, Corbière’s poems play on inversion, inverting meaning or sound, leading to a kind of equivalence between emptiness and plenitude, true and false, which is a way of acknowledging that any work of art is rooted in pipe dreams.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-07934-7
EAN:9782406079347
ISSN: 2608-5895
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07934-7.p.0021
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 03-23-2018
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Oxymoron, metrics, images, inversion, art