Literality and Discursive Reframing in the Works of Nathalie Quintane

Autor: Peter Poiana
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 72:228-238
ISSN: 1931-0676
0039-7709
DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2018.1527504
Popis: The oft-mentioned turn in French poetry in the 1990s coincided with the rediscovery of the practical use of discourse and its transferability across media, a trait that Jean-Marie Gleize described as litteralite. Gleize cites Nathalie Quintane as one of the emerging poets of the 1990s who epitomizes this trend insofar as she effects a severe reduction of the figural and develops a form of writing that is so direct, so devoid of depth, that the reader finds it disconcerting in its simplicity. Quintane dwells on details whose presence is so remarkably unremarkable that it overturns, by its opacity, the process of image production and myth building that has become one of the constants of postindustrial society. Quintane’s prose, which she subjects to a process of “dumbing down” (nunucherie), is analyzed from the standpoint of what we call discursive reframing, that is, the alteration of the relation between a statement and its framing discourses.
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