At the limit of breath: Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard (Robert Kroetsch Series) - Softcover

Scobie, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888646712 ISBN 13: 9780888646712

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2013

Synopsis

"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990)" Stephen Scobie celebrates "the greatest film director of his age" with poetry exploring 44 of Godard's films. Subtle yet profound unities play from poem to poem. Characters, locations, images, and the generous use of quotation jump-cut and recur to send the imagination reeling through the larger works of both artists. Readers will be seduced to linger within the writing and encouraged to seek beyond, to Godard's own oeuvre. The book is sharply envisioned and carefully cadenced so as to delight readers who may not be familiar with Godard's films. Those already acquainted with Godard's work will find At the limit of breath a most rewarding experience.

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About the Author

Stephen Scobie was born in Scotland and has lived in Canada since 1965, teaching at the Universities of Alberta and Victoria. A widely published poet, he won the Governor General's Award in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera. He has also published extensively in the criticism of Canadian literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Stephen Scobie lives in Victoria.

From the Back Cover

Front Flap: Stephen Scobie celebrates "the greatest film director of his age" with poetry exploring 44 of Godard's films. Subtle yet profound unities play from poem to poem. Characters, locations, images, and inter-textual quotation jump-cut and recur to send the imagination reeling through the larger works of both artists. Readers will be seduced to linger within the writing and encouraged to seek beyond, to Godard's own oeuvre. The book is sharply envisioned and carefully cadenced to delight readers who may not be familiar with Godard's films. Those already acquainted with Godard's work will find At the limit of breath a most rewarding experience. Back Cover: Here is light and here are soldiers here are bosses here are children here is light and here is joy . here is the universal wound here is night here is the virgin here is grace and here is light and here is light and here is fog and here is adventure and here is fiction and here is reality and here is documentary and here is movement and here is cinema and here is the image and here is sound and here is cinema -- JLG, Scénario du film Passion, 1982 Back Flap: Stephen Scobie was born in Scotland and has lived in Canada since 1965, teaching at the Universities of Alberta and Victoria. A widely published poet, he won the Governor General's Award in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera. He has also published extensively in the criticism of Canadian literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Stephen Scobie lives in Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888646712
• ISBN 13: 9780888646712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104