Writing in the Desert: Francis Ponge, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ecological Critique.
Speaking to a small audience in Brussels in 1947, Francis Ponge described his poetic practice as "writing in the desert." This paper examines Ponge's notion of "writing in the desert" as it pertains to his 1942 collection Le Parti pris des choses, focusing on the ecological critique embedded within...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary French & Francophone Studies Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 699 - 711 |
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Sep2024
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