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This book outlines certain durable properties of multi-layered
practice of artistic and intellectual invention by confronting it
with the complex theoretical and spatial metaphor of utopia. It
encourages understandings of the poetic and the utopian in the
twentieth-century French literary context.
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities
explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics
across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links
and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the
representation and imagining of urban life, the volume engages with
work from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural origins and
across a range of textual practices having the urban phenomenon as
a common framing concern. Individual contributions discussing genre
and literary fiction, poetic writing, documentary and essayistic
texts, planning manifestos and municipal communications materials
serve to demonstrate that the nuanced treatments of urban
experience and potential which may be gleaned from across this
textual spectrum act as a pragmatic corrective to purely conceptual
approaches. As such, the volume consolidates the emerging dialogue
between the fields of utopian studies and literary urban studies,
understanding these as complementary approaches to the reading of
the city and its textual prolongations.
The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of
transition between the terms compared. Understood as an
intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be
understood as both a transitive and a transnational process,
creating its own object and form of knowledge as it identifies and
analyses lines of relation and exchange between literary cultures.
When navigating between languages, the discipline becomes
critically engaged with the possibility and methods of such
navigation. Interdisciplinary and intermedial versions of
comparative studies likewise centre around transitions that may
themselves remain under-analysed. This collection of essays, with
contributions ranging from medieval literature to digital
humanities, seeks to illuminate and interrogate the very diversity
of comparative situations, with their attendant versions of
comparative discourse. The volume as a whole thereby reflects,
however fragmentedly, a field of study that is itself faced with
the reality of transition. As both a thematic and formal concern in
comparative work, transition emerges, within any historical period
or other configuration in which it is charted and analysed, as key
to the renewed relevance of comparative literary scholarship and
study today.
The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the
discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer
amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting,
multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self-)
invention. This study attempts to outline certain durable
properties of that practice by confronting it with the complex
theoretical and spatial metaphor of utopia. Drawing, in particular,
upon the oeuvres of Victor Segalen (1878-1919), Rene Daumal
(1908-44) and Yves Bonnefoy (b. 1923), it traces poetic work - work
done in support of poetic difference - along the social, physical
and textual axes of what is argued to be a sustained and radically
inclusive utopian practice within the literary field. The complex
utopian quality of poetic work is linked to the cultural
persistence of the poetic as a simple attribute within literary
practice. In uncovering this link, the study encourages revised
understandings of both the poetic and the utopian in the modern
French literary context.
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