| The Play of Light: Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends Contributor(s): Smock, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438481497 ISBN-13: 9781438481494 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 841.914 |
| LCCN: 2020013810 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.95 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing from five contemporary French poets--Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet--Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and being, on communication, and on secrets. Smock also includes thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Giorgio Agamben, who contribute to the conversation, as do Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. Though the poems considered here are often thought difficult, Smock maintains a light touch throughout. She writes in an accessible, even pleasurable style while contributing to the scholarly study of literature at the border shared by poetry and philosophy |
