TY - EJOUR A1 - Abert, Benoît TI - The dash—a play space T2 - Revue Verlaine 2020, n° 18. varia JO - Revue Verlaine (ISSN 2426-8860), 18, 2020 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11882-4.p.0141 SN - 2426-8860 SP - 141 EP - 159 AB - The purpose of this article is to establish how the use of the dash takes root in Verlaine’s prose as a kind of “jeu.” Opening up a nonbreaking space for the author’s freedom, this particularly versatile sign allows Verlaine to insert reformulations, glosses, quotations and other flights of wit, leaving an almost perpetual zigzag behind in the text: dialogical, digressive, transgressive, the dash is also a particularly corrosive way of impeding the act of reading. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/16 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Paul Verlaine, prose, dash, space, play, zigzag LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-verlaine-2020-n-18-varia-the-dasha-play-space.html Y2 - 2024/05/19 ER -