The porous boundaries of Jérôme Game's poetry : an introduction to three collections of poems (original) (raw)

Introduction: Acts of Poetry, Acts of Intepretation

Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion, 2023

Though both thinkers produced an ever-shifting and sometimes severely autocritical body of work, Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan share one unwavering conviction, one that rightly merits the epithet ontological: the discursive representations that make up the world of appearances are inherently enigmatic not only on the level of their problematic link to sense and meaning, but also, and more fundamentally, as regards the robustness and reliability of their existence, of their very being’s power of self-actualization. Words and images are at once the direct manifestation of, and the necessarily failed attempt to conceal, the underlying inconsistency of being. It is not merely signification that remains irremediably unconsummated, unfulfilled; reality itself is disfigured by a misfire, as if prematurely removed from the ontological oven, disappointingly underbaked. Like Lacan’s psychoanalytic act of interpretation, Genet’s poetic image functions to 1 expose these fissures in being for which fantasy normally compensates, altering in the process the collective relation to our symptomatically repressed experiences of enjoyment. This introduction positions the book’s project against both Sartre’s and Derrida’s monumental readings as well as the contemporary resurgence in ontological inquiry. It describes Genet’s creative project as specifically feminine in the proper psychoanalytic sense, and argues for the importance of his complicated political affiliations in the age of resurgent homophobia and racism as well as the enduring Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Poetry

Entry on "Poetry", written jointly with Emma Wagstaff, in the Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought Written By: Murray, Christopher John Published By: Routledge Published In: 2001 and 2013 MIL EAN/ISBN: 9781280347719 Pub e-EAN/ISBN: 9781135455651 Hardcover EAN/ISBN: 9781579583842 Paper EAN/ISBN: 9781136724961

CONTEMPORARY POETICS edited by Louis Armand

2007

Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and cybernetics--this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of the contemporary. In these essays, the most interesting and distinguished theorists in the field renegotiate the contours of what might constitute "contemporary poetics," ranging from the historical advent of concrete poetry to the current technopoetics of cyberspace. Concerned with a poetics that extends beyond our own time, as a mere marker of present-day literary activity, their work addresses the limits of a writing "practice"--beginning with Stéphane Mallarmé in the late nineteenth century--that engages concretely with what it means to be contemporary. Contributors: Charles Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, Kevin Nolan, Donald F. Theall, Bob Perelman, Simon Critchley, D.J. Huppatz, Michel Delville, Andrew Norris, Ricardo L. Nirenberg, Keston Sutherland, Nicole Tomlinson, Julian Savage, Bruce Andrews, Augusto de Campos, Darren Tofts, Gregory L. Ulmer, J. Hillis Miller, McKenzie Wark, Alan Sondheim, Louis Armand, Steve McCaffery, Allen Fisher.