The Unseizable Landscape of the Real: The Poetry and Poetics of Philippe Jaccottet
For Philippe Jaccottet the real is the force of life itself. It is also a rapid, fleeting perception made all the more ephemeral by the mimetic imprecision of language. The essence of the real, since it is always other than what is said about it, can never be fully represented. This alterity of the...
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New Prairie Press
1989-11-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol13/iss1/6 |