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Georges Bataille and the Experience of Poetry

Georges Bataille and the Experience of Poetry

Publié le par René Audet (Source : Balzac-L)

Call for Papers for the Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium -- "Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures, and Contexts" at the University of Illinois: 27-30 March 2003

Proposed Panel: " Georges Bataille and the Experience of Poetry"

Georges Bataille's writings on poetry waver between claiming it is the experience of the impossible (synonymous with absolute sacrifice and sovereign expenditure) and the disappointed realization that poetry remains "restreinte" and thus the dupe of its own linguistic mimicry of the absolute and merely (?) the "holocaust of words."
This panel proposes to examine Bataille's concomitant fascination and disappointment with the claims of poetry. In terms of cultural capital, can poetry be the sovereign experience of the absolute expenditure of human culture and reason; an experience capable of freeing poetry from what Bataille defines as the political economy that seeks to constrain and condition the life of poetic form?
This panel is open to a vast array of topics: readings of specific texts by Bataille; theoretical consideration of Bataille's role in defining the situation of poetry at the end of the 20th century; the reception of Bataille's writings on poetry by other 20th-century French writers (poets, philosophers, sociologists).

Please send abstracts (120 words max.) by August 1, 2002 (and preferably by email) to:

James Petterson
French Department
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02481

Email: jpetterson@wellesley.edu

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    University of Illinois