Warren F Motte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren F Motte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren F |
| FAMILY NAME | Motte |
| SIGNATURE | MOTTE W F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gérard Gavarry's Hops
Gérard Gavarry's Hops Warren Motte University of Colorado Once in a great while a novel comes along that pleases and astonishes not only by virtue of the story it tells, but also by virtue of its form, and the new possibilities that it suggests for the genre itself. Gérard Gavarry's Hop là! un deux trois (2001) is just such a book, one of the richest and most innovative novels to appear in France in recent years. Set in the suburbs of Paris, it p…
Introduction: The French Novel Now
The French Novel Now Warren Motte University of Colorado As many of us know to our chagrin, speculating about the "now" can be very perilous indeed, for that "now" is the most protean of terms, at once both dynamic and static, mutating into something quite different even as we struggle to come to terms with it, yet continually demanding that we account for it once and for all. In the essays included here, we have attempted to describe certain for…
Reflections on Mirrors
Reflections on Mirrors Warren Motte (bio) [A lecture delivered in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University, September 23, 2004.] When Johns Hopkins extended its kind invitation to me yet again, I thought long and hard about what I might say today. I thought that I might speak about the question of mourning in the work of Georges Perec; but when the issue of Yale French Studies containing that piece of mine app…
Jeux mortels
Le formalisme ludique de la Disparition , de Perec, roman de trois cents pages composé sans la lettre E , cache un jeu mortel. Car le livre encrypte un discours d'urgence, dont les termes principaux sont la privation, le manque et la mort. Au terme d'une telle lecture, le littéraire en vient à figurer iconiquement le littéral : ce que transcrit le roman, finalement, c'est l'itinéraire écrit d'une survie
Voices in Her Head
Voices in Her Head Warren Motte (bio) Reading Lydie Salvayre is principally a matter of listening. A clamor of voices resounds in her writings—voices of rage, of loathing, of indignation, of sorrow, of fear, of desperation. They shout, they whisper, they castigate, they wheedle, they condemn. Some voices are maddeningly prolix, others are painfully laconic; some offer carefully reasoned insight, others speak to say nothing; some emanate from the …
Perfect Books
Having accepted SubStance's kind invitation to contribute to its hundredth issue, I found myself more and more troubled by the questions I had been asked to address, "What are the questions that fascinate you?" and "What do you want to know?" Not that they are unreasonable ones; quite to the contrary in fact. I realized nonetheless that, while there are a great many questions that fascinate me, the ones that fascinate me the most are the ones I f…
Introduction: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jacques Jouet (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Once again, with this special section on Jacques Jouet, SubStance returns to a format it practiced in its early years, introducing the work of a writer whom it feels deserving of broader recognition among readers of contemporary literature. As Sydney Lévy put it in a recent issue, there are only two rules to be observed here: first, that the author work with the journal in order to shape the dossier; second, that the author figure among the contr…
Jacques Jouet and the Literature of Exhaustion
In the last two decades, Jacques Jouet has patiently constructed one of the most astonishing bodies of work in contemporary French literature. During that time, he has published some 40 volumes in a variety of literary genres. By turn a poet, a novelist, a playwright, a short story writer, an essayist, a lexicographer, and a member of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), Jouet never seems to rewrite himself--and such a consideration a…
Francis Ponge: De la connaissance en poesie
The working hypothesis of Sydney Lévy's Ponge is that poetry may help us come to know the world of phenomena, and that it may in some cases articulate that knowledge in a manner that might be called "scientific." This is a notion that will confound many readers of contemporary poetry--though it would surely have seemed utterly apt to Lucretius. Lévy is interested in the ways in which Ponge attempts to reduce the distance between experience and it…
The Rhetoric of the Impossible
The Rhetoric of the Impossible Warren Motte (bio) Is it possible, it thinks, that one has not yet seen, known and said anything real or important? —Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge It's damn near impossible to write about Marcel Bénabou's books. They present a limpid, armored surface where the kind of handholds one normally looks for in a text are rare and extraordinarily precarious. Every utterance in them is so deeply bound up in ir…
Questioning Edmond Jabes
Questioning Edmond Jabes
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature
De la problematologie? Philosophie, science et langage
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
The Poetics of Experiment: A Study of the Work of Georges Perec
La Bibliotheque Oulipienne
Le vol. 6 est publie par le Castor Astral, il reunit les fascicules 74 a 85 (1995-1997) de la Bibliotheque oulipienne, avec des textes de Herve Le Tellier, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Jacques Bens, Jacques Roubaud et Francois Le Lionnais
Jacques Jouet and the Literature of Exhaustion
In the last two decades, Jacques Jouet has patiently constructed one of the most astonishing bodies of work in contemporary French literature. During that time, he has published some 40 volumes in a variety of literary genres. By turn a poet, a novelist, a playwright, a short story writer, an essayist, a lexicographer, and a member of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), Jouet never seems to rewrite himself--and such a consideration a…
La Bibliotheque Oulipienne
Le vol. 6 est publie par le Castor Astral, il reunit les fascicules 74 a 85 (1995-1997) de la Bibliotheque oulipienne, avec des textes de Herve Le Tellier, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Jacques Bens, Jacques Roubaud et Francois Le Lionnais
The Poetics of Experiment: A Study of the Work of Georges Perec
De la problematologie? Philosophie, science et langage
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature
Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature
Questioning Edmond Jabes
Questioning Edmond Jabes
The Rhetoric of the Impossible
The Rhetoric of the Impossible Warren Motte (bio) Is it possible, it thinks, that one has not yet seen, known and said anything real or important? —Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge It's damn near impossible to write about Marcel Bénabou's books. They present a limpid, armored surface where the kind of handholds one normally looks for in a text are rare and extraordinarily precarious. Every utterance in them is so deeply bound up in ir…
Francis Ponge: De la connaissance en poesie
The working hypothesis of Sydney Lévy's Ponge is that poetry may help us come to know the world of phenomena, and that it may in some cases articulate that knowledge in a manner that might be called "scientific." This is a notion that will confound many readers of contemporary poetry--though it would surely have seemed utterly apt to Lucretius. Lévy is interested in the ways in which Ponge attempts to reduce the distance between experience and it…
Introduction: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jacques Jouet (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Once again, with this special section on Jacques Jouet, SubStance returns to a format it practiced in its early years, introducing the work of a writer whom it feels deserving of broader recognition among readers of contemporary literature. As Sydney Lévy put it in a recent issue, there are only two rules to be observed here: first, that the author work with the journal in order to shape the dossier; second, that the author figure among the contr…
Jacques Jouet and the Literature of Exhaustion
In the last two decades, Jacques Jouet has patiently constructed one of the most astonishing bodies of work in contemporary French literature. During that time, he has published some 40 volumes in a variety of literary genres. By turn a poet, a novelist, a playwright, a short story writer, an essayist, a lexicographer, and a member of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), Jouet never seems to rewrite himself--and such a consideration a…
Perfect Books
Having accepted SubStance's kind invitation to contribute to its hundredth issue, I found myself more and more troubled by the questions I had been asked to address, "What are the questions that fascinate you?" and "What do you want to know?" Not that they are unreasonable ones; quite to the contrary in fact. I realized nonetheless that, while there are a great many questions that fascinate me, the ones that fascinate me the most are the ones I f…
Voices in Her Head
Voices in Her Head Warren Motte (bio) Reading Lydie Salvayre is principally a matter of listening. A clamor of voices resounds in her writings—voices of rage, of loathing, of indignation, of sorrow, of fear, of desperation. They shout, they whisper, they castigate, they wheedle, they condemn. Some voices are maddeningly prolix, others are painfully laconic; some offer carefully reasoned insight, others speak to say nothing; some emanate from the …
Reflections on Mirrors
Reflections on Mirrors Warren Motte (bio) [A lecture delivered in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University, September 23, 2004.] When Johns Hopkins extended its kind invitation to me yet again, I thought long and hard about what I might say today. I thought that I might speak about the question of mourning in the work of Georges Perec; but when the issue of Yale French Studies containing that piece of mine app…
Jeux mortels
Le formalisme ludique de la Disparition , de Perec, roman de trois cents pages composé sans la lettre E , cache un jeu mortel. Car le livre encrypte un discours d'urgence, dont les termes principaux sont la privation, le manque et la mort. Au terme d'une telle lecture, le littéraire en vient à figurer iconiquement le littéral : ce que transcrit le roman, finalement, c'est l'itinéraire écrit d'une survie
Gérard Gavarry's Hops
Gérard Gavarry's Hops Warren Motte University of Colorado Once in a great while a novel comes along that pleases and astonishes not only by virtue of the story it tells, but also by virtue of its form, and the new possibilities that it suggests for the genre itself. Gérard Gavarry's Hop là! un deux trois (2001) is just such a book, one of the richest and most innovative novels to appear in France in recent years. Set in the suburbs of Paris, it p…
Introduction: The French Novel Now
The French Novel Now Warren Motte University of Colorado As many of us know to our chagrin, speculating about the "now" can be very perilous indeed, for that "now" is the most protean of terms, at once both dynamic and static, mutating into something quite different even as we struggle to come to terms with it, yet continually demanding that we account for it once and for all. In the essays included here, we have attempted to describe certain for…
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