A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall

Eric Robertson

A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall

Eric Robertson

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Abstract

This chapter explores the complex and fluid relationship between form and formlessness through a range of literary and visual works. Georges Bataille's definition of the formless (informe) in the dissident Surrealist journal Documents (1929) provides the starting point for a trajectory that encompasses the dissolution of language in Lettrism, the dystopian art of Tetsumi Kudo and the powerful intermedia work of contemporary poet Caroline Bergvall.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	What Forms Can Do
Subtitle of host publication	The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought
Editors	Patrick Crowley, Shirley Jordan
Place of Publication	Liverpool
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Chapter	17
Pages	271-286
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	978-1-789-62065-8
Publication status	Published - 26 Feb 2020

Keywords

French literature
French visual arts
French poetry
Georges Bataille
Roland Barthes
Bernard Réquichot
Tetsumi Kudo
Caroline Bergvall
Documents 1929-30

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A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall. / Robertson, Eric.
What Forms Can Do : The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. ed. / Patrick Crowley; Shirley Jordan. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. p. 271-286.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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