The Notion of Presence in the Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy

The notion of presence is the cornerstone of Bonnefoy's entire poetics, the common element linking his earliest pronouncements about poetry to his latest. The insistence on presence emerges as the animating principle of a selfconsciously anti-Mallarmean concept of poetry that seeks to align i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John T. Naughton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1989-11-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol13/iss1/5