Perpetual Motion: Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern

Michael Sheringham

Perpetual Motion
Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern

Michael Sheringham

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André Breton (1896-1966), French poet

Pierre Alferi (1963-), French poet

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French poet

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25 May 2017 • 398pp

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Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism, the age of André Breton (1896-1966), and the postmodernism of such contemporary poets as Pierre Alferi (1963-). For Sheringham, a sense of motion and plasticity flows through the last century of French poetry, and reveals itself through themes of rhythm, inspiration, sensation, love, colour and the city, both as an imaginative space and an incitement to new identities and ways of being in the world. It has been a rich century indeed for French poetry, and, in addition to Breton and Alferi, talents as singular yet also as representative as Victor Segalen, Guillaume Apollinaire, Raymond Queneau, Jules Supervielle, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Roubaud, Michel Deguy and Jacques Réda all make appearances in these pages.

Michael Sheringham was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2015, and was Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of the British Academy. His book Everyday Life (2006), a literary and philosophical investigation into the elusive nature of the quotidian, is widely considered a classic of modern scholarly writing.

Reviews:

‘Sheringham s’y révèle un maître de l’art du compte rendu... Ce livre si riche en intuitions, détours, élucidations et remarquables traductions, se lira aussi comme l’art poétique d’un grand critique.’ — Jean Khalfa, French Studies 73.1, 145 (full text online)
‘Here is a reader finely attuned to the myriad ways in which poetry seeks out new encounters with reality through endless linguistic experimentation and play... it is his ability to unlock the detail of what poetry accordingly helps concretize and crystallize, mentally, spiritually and emotionally, that will stimulate and delight those guided from essay to essay on an adventure ever in the making.’ — Michael Brophy, Irish Journal of French Studies 18, 2018, 229-30
‘Poignant and richly rewarding... [Sheringham] offers an authoritative view of current academic study of a vast number of authors, major and minor, writing on almost the entire Surrealist and post-Surrealist constellation.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 55.3, July 2019, 356-57
‘Questa scelta, in parte postuma, di scritti conferma in definitiva, per la varietà e ricchezza degli argomenti trattati e per l’acuità dello sguardo del suo A., la qualità di una ricerca che ha sempre rifuggito troppo facili schematismi per affrontare dimensioni assai diverse del poetico come quella oracolare, mistica o linguisticamente trasgressiva con eguale curiosità intellettuale e finezza d’analisi.’ — Fabio Scotto, Studi francesi 188, 2020, 396

Contents:

xi-xi	Acknowledgments Patrick McGuinness, Priscilla Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.3	Cite
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xii-xiv	Sources Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.4	Cite
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xv-xviii	Introduction Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.5	Cite
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1-27	1 From the Labyrinth of Language To the Language of the Senses: the Poetry of André Breton Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.6	Cite
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28-51	2 Mont de piété and André Breton’s Early Poetic Development Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.7	Cite
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52-64	3 Rimbaud in 1875 and André Breton’s ‘Forêt-Noire’ Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.8	Cite
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65-83	4 Breton and the Language of Automatism: Alterity, Allegory, Desire Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.9	Cite
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84-100	5 Where Do Poems Come From? A Reading of Breton’s ‘Carnet’ Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.10	Cite
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101-126	6 City Space, Mental Space, Poetic Space: Paris in Breton, Benjamin and Réda Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.11	Cite
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127-130	7 The Liberator of Desire Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.12	Cite
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131-134	8 Le Film des durées Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.13	Cite
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135-140	9 Foucault’s Goethe Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.14	Cite
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141-142	10 Naissance de l’aventure surréaliste Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.15	Cite
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143-156	11 Baudelaire, Bonnefoy, Jeanne Duval: Poetry and Ethical Lucidity Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.16	Cite
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157-173	12 L’Amour et son double: Faces of Love in Yves Bonnefoy Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.17	Cite
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174-185	13 Jacques Réda and the Commitments of Poetry Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.18	Cite
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186-197	14 Raymond Queneau: The Lure of the Spiritual Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.19	Cite
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198-218	15 Language, Colour, and the Enigma of Everydayness Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.20	Cite
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219-228	16 Everyday Rhythms, Everyday Writing: Réda with Deleuze and Guattari Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.21	Cite
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229-243	17 Paris — City of Names: Toponymic Trajectories and Mutable Identities Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.22	Cite
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244-246	18 Michel Deguy Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.23	Cite
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247-249	19 Poetry and its Double Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.24	Cite
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250-250	20 Innovarinations Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.25	Cite
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251-255	21 Imaginary Solutions Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.26	Cite
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256-258	22 Discreetly Tangential Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.27	Cite
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259-263	23 Lust in the Library Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.28	Cite
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264-268	24 The Sailor Who Hated the Sea Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.29	Cite
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269-274	25 The Shadows Inside: Memory, the Body, and Forgetting in Supervielle Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.30	Cite
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275-277	26 On the Road to Reality Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.31	Cite
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278-283	27 L’Habitant de Grignan Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.32	Cite
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284-285	28 Apollinaire and the Livre de Peintre Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.33	Cite
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286-287	29 Six French Poets of our Time Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.34	Cite
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288-289	30 Péret and the Poetry of Change Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.35	Cite
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290-291	31 Reverdy’s Horizons Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.36	Cite
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292-293	32 Finding a Language Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.37	Cite
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294-297	33 Bonnefoy’s Poetics Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.38	Cite
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298-300	34 Rooted in the Oral Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.39	Cite
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301-302	35 Surrealism and the Book Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.40	Cite
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303-304	36 Guillevic Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.41	Cite
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305-305	37 Surrealist Automatic Writing Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.42	Cite
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306-306	38 A Translation of Bonnefoy Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.43	Cite
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307-309	39 La Liberté des rues Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.44	Cite
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310-311	40 Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.45	Cite
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312-313	41 The Material and the Real Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.46	Cite
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314-330	42 Survival and Resurgence of the Avant-Garde, or the Inf luence of Pierre Alferi on André Breton Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.47	Cite
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331-340	43 Pierre Alferi, ‘Une défense de la poésie’ Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.48	Cite
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341-363	44 Pierre Alferi and Jakob von Uexküll: Experience and Experiment in Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.49	Cite
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364-376	45 Pierre Alferi and the Poetics of the Dissolve: Film and Visual Media in Sentimentale Journée Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.50	Cite
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377-380	INDEX Michael Sheringham doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkz7n.51	Cite
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Perpetual MotionStudies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern

Michael Sheringham

Perpetual Motion
Studies in French Poetry from Surrealism to the Postmodern