French Literature and Poetry

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With a plan to trace the relationship between a purely formal history of writing and the deeper levels of history, Barthes's project in Le degré zéro de l'écriture seems to have failed because it remains unclear what degré zéro historically represents. Drawing on Le degré zéro de l'écriture, as well as Barthes's later…

• DANIEL JUST

Supplementarity and the Sonnet A Reading of Ronsard’s Les Amours Diverses 45 Matthew Gumpert [these imitations are mere nonsense] Lysistrata l.1591 Introduction: Examples and Supplements Les Amours Diverses 45 is almost certainly Ronsard's most obscene poem. Critics in the past have not been kind to it. And while it a…

Bu çalışma 19. yüzyılda ortaya çıkan Charles Baudelaire’in ‘Modern Hayatın Ressamı’ ile Walter Benjamin’in ‘Pasajlar’ adlı yapıtlarının temel kavramlarından biri olan ve bir yaşam biçimini ifade eden ‘Flaneur’lüğün izini sürmekte; teknolojinin gelişmesiyle birlikte ortaya çıkan yeni medya olanaklarındaki Flaneur yaşam…

• YALÇIN DEMİRKIRAN

Against the background of the literary and philosophical debates in France in the mid- and the late 1950s, this article examines Maurice Blanchot's narrative Le Dernier homme (1957), as well as his critical essays from this period, asking whether the emphasis Blanchot puts in these texts on exhaustion, weakness and su…

• DANIEL JUST

Cavafy's poetry should remind us not only that all socialized space is politically significant (in the city, there are no havens from meaning), but conversely, that critical language tends to be expressed in spatial terms. The café is a privileged space in Cavafy's cities; in it, we witness the rites of a new poetics…

Gabriel Urbain Faure, a composer of late Romanticism linked with modernism, is one of the leading French melodie composers of his genre. Melodie can be described as a French art song, similar to German lied. Harmonic progressions, chromatic shifts and sudden modulations are often seen in Faure’s music, also giving hig…

• CANAN ÖZGÜR

Charles Baudelaire çağdaş Fransız şiiri yanında genel estetik algının dönüşümü noktasında da oldukça önemli bir isimdir. O, modernist estetiği, tüm yerleşik iyilik, güzellik, simetri ya da düzen kavramlarını altüst eden bir "karşı" değer olarak görür. Böylece, tamamen farklı bir yaklaşım ile gerçeklik algısını dönüştü…

• CEMİLE ODUNKIRAN

A lot of poets appeared in France after the Revolution as a fertile field after abondonned for years. The France before the Revolution, in others words, the XVIIIth century was a philosophy century. The France was a country of philosophers. Rousseau, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Diderot, Buffon and D’Alembert had lived in t…

• KEMAL ÇELİK

Recent scholarship suggests that Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mary Ruefle—three giants in the world of poetry who flourished in different centuries—should be more seriously considered as feminist writers that they previously have been. The present work makes a specific case to that effect by examining one po…

• CARL JEFFREY BOON

This study analyzes the organic form of writing of Sylvia Plath that has been ignored by most of the Plath scholars. Although Plath achieved and maintained a unique and evolving style both in her poetry and prose, this unique style has been read under the misleading light of Plath's biography retold by different Plath…

• ESİN KUMLU

This essay explores representations of the urban in Guillaume Apollinaire’s Alcools (1913) from the double perspective of his engagement with Cubist principles and his linguistic experimentation with multi-sensory imagery. With regard to the former, I would like to examine Apollinaire’s poetic image-making in light of…

• DENİZ EYÜCE ŞANSAL