Le Chant du signifié: sur une lecture de Jean Cohen par Michel Houellebecq

Ippolito, Christophe

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“…2 See Christophe Ippolito's (2009) discussion of Houellebecq's vision of poetry as a merging with the world that counteracts the separation of subject, object, and outside world that the author sees as inherent in ordinary language. As Ippolite identifies, Houellebecq is deeply inspired by the phenomenological account of poetic language developed by Jean Cohen.…”

Section: Paradoxical Horizonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planet YouPorn: Pornography, Worlding, and Banal Globalization in Michel Houellebecq’s Work

Marcus

2023

Humanities

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This article studies mediated erotic content, especially pornography, as a form of worlding in Michel Houellebecq’s work. Whereas love creates a space of alterity, pornography paradoxically combines the most intimate spatiality of the body with ever-expanding technological systems and global forms of mediation. This short-circuiting of space points to a new sense of being in the world, which is studied in selected passages from the novels La Possibilité d’une île and Soumission, as well as in the essay “Prise de contrôle sur Numéris.” With reference to Ulrich Beck’s description of “banal cosmopolitanism,” I argue that otherness is either reduced to free-floating objects of consumption or to an experience of absence in these texts. Furthermore, this duality is refracted as two “reflexively” interwoven discourses or voices in the work. One is associated with prose and with the bringing of the world to the body of the subject, and the other with poetry and the dissolution of the body into the space of the world.

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Section: Paradoxical Horizonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planet YouPorn: Pornography, Worlding, and Banal Globalization in Michel Houellebecq’s Work

Marcus

2023

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La couleur rouge et sa valeur pathétique dans l’expressionnisme abstrait et le surréalisme tardif

Ippolito

2020

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This essay analyses the dialogue between automatism and late surrealism on the color red, with a focus on the intensity shared by painting and literature. The starting point is a collective prose poem by André Breton, Élisa Breton, and Benjamin Péret. This poem, « Riopelle », written for an exhibition of Jean-Paul Riopelle’s automatist paintings in 1949, is included in Breton’s Le Surréalisme et la peinture.

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Le Chant du signifié: sur une lecture de Jean Cohen par Michel Houellebecq

Abstract: Cet article analyse, à partir d'un compte-rendu de Michel Houellebecq sur "Le Haut Langage" de Jean Cohen, les correspondances entre la théorie de la poéticité de Cohen et la pratique poétique de Houellebecq.

Cited by 2 publications

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Planet YouPorn: Pornography, Worlding, and Banal Globalization in Michel Houellebecq’s Work

Planet YouPorn: Pornography, Worlding, and Banal Globalization in Michel Houellebecq’s Work

La couleur rouge et sa valeur pathétique dans l’expressionnisme abstrait et le surréalisme tardif

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