Towards “Autopoetics” (retour sur e-Rea 5.2 2007)

This short essay picks up where the 2007 issue of e-Rea on “Poetry and Autobiography” had left off. It recontextualizes the debate over autobiography and literary genre, especially as it took place in the wake of Philippe Lejeune’s Pacte autobiographique. The outright dismissal of poetry as the locu...

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Published inE-rea : Revue d'etudes anglophones Vol. 21; no. 21.1
Main Author AJI, Hélène
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone 15.12.2023
Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
Subjects
autobiography
French literature
poetics
poetry
US literature
littérature des États-Unis
poetics
poésie
US literature
French literature
poétique
littérature française
autobiographie
autobiography
poetry
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Summary:This short essay picks up where the 2007 issue of e-Rea on “Poetry and Autobiography” had left off. It recontextualizes the debate over autobiography and literary genre, especially as it took place in the wake of Philippe Lejeune’s Pacte autobiographique. The outright dismissal of poetry as the locus for autobiography is thus revisited, and the formal experiments allowed by the poetic form to question the narrative linearity and coherency of the prose autobiographical account are historicized. The idea of an “autopoetics” then emerges from the possibility that the poetic could be the mode whose discontinuities align with the representation of today’s disorganized and disorganizing identities.
ISSN:1638-1718
1638-1718
DOI:10.4000/erea.17263