Searching for Presence: Yves Bonnefoy's Writings on Art (Faux Titre 250) - Softcover

Greene, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042017929 ISBN 13: 9789042017924

Publisher: Rodopi, 2004

Synopsis

Yves Bonnefoy's writings have won him praise not only from readers and critics of French poetry, but also, thanks to translations into many other languages, from readers and critics of poetry far beyond the francophone world. Indeed, Bonnefoy may be the most admired poet to have emerged in France since World War II. Yet his art criticism, dazzling in its scope, possibly as original as his poetry, is yet to receive the attention it deserves. Searching for Presence: Yves Bonnefoy's Writings on Art undertakes to fill that lacuna.
In an age when so many of his contemporaries seem to view any form of art as wallpaper spanning a void, Bonnefoy's faith in presence is all the more welcome. Focusing on his art criticism, the aspect of the poet's oeuvre in which the notion of presence is the most salient, this study tries to do justice to that fidelity.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert W. Greene, professor emeritus of French, University at Albany, State University of New York, is the author of The Poetic Theory of Pierre Reverdy (University of California Press, 1967), Six French Poets of Our Time (Princeton University Press, 1979) and Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), and the editor of Dalhousie French Studies, 21 (Fall-Winter 1991), devoted to “Art Criticism by French Poets Since World War II”.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9042017929
• ISBN 13: 9789042017924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204