Crossed tongues : the crisis of speech in the prose poems of Francis Ponge

This thesis is a critical, creative and part-biographical study of Francis Ponge's increasing self-consciousness around the spoken word, from his early prose poems through to his art criticism, and how his obsession with verbal inadequacy serves to undermine his stated ambition to 'side wi...

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Main Author: Monson, Jane Elizabeth
Published: Cardiff University 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584292