Other crises of verse: prose as a contemporary critical and poetic problem

• Grant number: 14/08522-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: January 01, 2015
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Antonio Siscar
• Grantee: Marcos Antonio Siscar
• Host Investigator: Jean-Michel Maulpoix
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

Abstract

The general goal of this research is to reconstruct the contemporary state of discussions on prose as poetic and critical problem through some French writers who indicate a movement "towards prose". In order to understand what is at stake in this discussion, very intense nowadays, it is important to examine the tradition of prose poem, from Baudelaire to Francis Ponge, as well as do not lose sight of theoretical models of such discussion. Jean-Marie Gleize and Pierre Alféri are two authors who have contributed to associate the longstanding discussion of "objectivism" or "literalism" to an aesthetic and to a politic of prose. In order to establish a strong critical and bibliographical support for the project, we intend to undertake a research at parisian libraries, in a direct exchange with Jean-Michel Maulpoix (former professor at Paris X University - Nanterre, now at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3), one of the leading scholars of contemporary poetry, but also one of the most important voices in this discussion. (AU)