3. The Text As Object: Francis Ponge’S Verbal Still Lifes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 3
6. 1. The Object In Modernism In The United States And France 12
7. 2. Cubism And The Poetry Of The Object: Pierre Reverdy’S Aesthetics Of Impersonality 60
8. 3. The Text As Object: Francis Ponge’S Verbal Still Lifes 89
9. 4. Description As Transfiguration: Jean Follain’S (Meta)Poetics Of The Object 125
10. 5. The Object As (M)Other: Guillevic’S Poetry And Object-Relations Theory 156
11. 6. Jean Tortel’S Poetics Of The Desiring Gaze 197
12. 7. L’Objet Après L’Objet: Contemporary French Poetry 220
13. Conclusion: Two Traditions 282
14. Notes 287
15. Bibliography 297
16. Index 315