Essay as Enabler in Yves Bonnefoy
Creating the Good Reader
Layla Roesler
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 67 Legenda 10 December 2022 • 204pp ISBN: 978-1-839540-46-2 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-839540-47-9 (paperback, 14 August 2025) ISBN: 978-1-839540-48-6 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ContemporaryFrenchPoetryCriticism The essays of Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) form a far larger body of work than his poetry, but his undoubted stature as a poet has led scholars to see the essays almost entirely as secondary works: as offshoots of the poems, or hints for understanding them, or even just as an ars poetica. All of this is to overlook that Bonnefoy showed great dedication to the essay as a form of communication, valuing its vibrant potential to connect people and ideas in the contemporary world. As Roesler shows in this ground-breaking study, the essay, for Bonnefoy, may indeed be a bridge between philosophy and poetry, but it is also itself. Its stylistic malleability integrates an eminently modern position, and provides Bonnefoy with a platform from which, beneath his characteristic humility, he constantly guides and directs the reader. Layla Roesler teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon. Her fields include French and English literature as well as translation studies and theory.
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Roesler, Layla, Essay as Enabler in Yves Bonnefoy: Creating the Good Reader, Research Monographs in French Studies, 67 (Legenda, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 Layla Roesler, Essay as Enabler in Yves Bonnefoy: Creating the Good Reader, Research Monographs in French Studies, 67 (Legenda, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Roesler, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Roesler, Layla. 2022. Essay as Enabler in Yves Bonnefoy: Creating the Good Reader, Research Monographs in French Studies, 67 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Roesler 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Roesler 2022: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Essay-as-Enabler-in-Yves-Bonnefoy www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-67 |
