Ann Smock
Biographic Data
| ID | 335339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Smock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Smock |
| SIGNATURE | SMOCK A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nel mezzo del cammin
"Nel mezzo del cammin":Queneau's Enfants du Limon Ann Smock (bio) I propose to examine here, with admiration, a single novel by Raymond Queneau, Les Enfants du Limon. Its two principal elements are politics and insanity: their ways of inspiring, or exploiting, each other. Or more simply, their general resemblance. At least so it seems if one rereads the novel today. Its title—Children of the Clay, in English—suggests the other strong current runn…
Listening for Blanchot
In this essay, I try to account for the impression I sometimes have while reading certain contemporary French poets to whom I've turned in an effort to depart the world of Blanchot. It is the impression that I hear his voice. By "Blanchot's voice" I mean a specific intonation : the accent, if you will, that distinguishes indifference. This accent is no one's special distinction—this tone belongs exclusively to none. So, my ear is peeled for what …
Give the Word
Give the Word
"Give the Word puts together Werner Hamacher's groundbreaking 95 Theses, a wide collection of never-before-published essays in response to individual theses, and Hamacher's own reaction to these scholars' study of his work"
No music
"No music..." Ann Smock These words, "No music, not now!" appear in Phrase, Lacoue-Labarthe's book of poems and prose, published in 2000. They come toward the end of "Phrase XVII," which is called "Scène." "Pas de musique!" may well be the words that most attached me to this book when I first read through it; they are the words I've remembered it by ever since. This is probably because when I had the good fortune to know Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe,…
A Semite
In this memoir, the author excavates his family's past and fills out a portrait of an imposing, enigmatic father. René Guénoun was a teacher, pioneer, and supporter of Algerian independence. To be Algerian, pro-independence, a French citizen, a Jew, and a Communist were not, to René's mind, dissonant allegiances. He called himself a Semite, a word that he felt united Jewish and Arab worlds and best reflected a shared origin. He also believed that…
Geranium Logic
Distant Language
Cloudy Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud, a lively partisan of formin literature, nevertheless has a cloudy side. This essay dwells on his attention to a formless haze that shadows all things' definition, and that form cannot avoid exposing wherever it declares itself
Modern Visual Poetry
This learned and thorough book offers a panorama of visual poetry, from Apollinaire's first "calligramme," published in Les Soirées de Paris the year World War I began, to the hyperpoetry and holopoems which, as the 20th century drew to a close, you could access easily on UbuWeb. It takes in the exuberant experiments of the Italian Futurists, the "ascetic exercises" of 1950s Concrete poets, and the Dada-inspired interventions of Lettrists during …
Tranced
Tongue-Tied
MLN - Volume 114, Number 5, December 1999 (Comparative Literature Issue)
The Writing of the Disaster = L'écriture du Désastre
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster's infinite threat. First published in Frenc…
Maryse Conde's Les Derniers Rois mages
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
Lost Beyond Telling
Double Dealing
Learn to Read, She Said
Albert des Capitales is an account of a torture session. It is one of the narratives in Marguerite Duras's La douleur.' I was not inclined, initially, to pay much attention to it. I was put off by various things, among them this: that Duras should not have hesitated to provide an account of torture with tone. That she should place one impersonal, expressionless phrase after the other like dull blows dealt in deliberate successionand thus, with th…
Intersections
Four writers--the first, eighteenth-century Frenchman whose works still re-tain their power to shock, scandalize, and instruct; the others, three twentieth-century Frenchmen, heirs and explicators of their earlier compatriot--form the central cast of characters of this literary-philosophical dialogue which seeks to transcend the barriers of time, space, and sexual identity imposed by traditional ap-proaches to literature. Professor Gallop, acknow…
Literary Economies and Critical Gifts
The Dissimulating Harmony
Ou est la loi
The law governing the boarding house in Aminadab (Paris: Gallimard, 1942) is tirelessly, indeed tiresomely clarified, as though there were no end to the sentences concerning it, for even the most contradictory do not rule each other out but expand at great length to accommodate each other. Explications, interpretations are ceaselessly exchanged, projects of investigation and research are energetically initiated, reports circulate, documents pile …
The Disclosure of Difference in Butor
Re-Turning Disemblance
Valery and the Mathematical Language of Identity and Difference
Cloudy Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud, a lively partisan of formin literature, nevertheless has a cloudy side. This essay dwells on his attention to a formless haze that shadows all things' definition, and that form cannot avoid exposing wherever it declares itself
Valery and the Mathematical Language of Identity and Difference
The Disclosure of Difference in Butor
Re-Turning Disemblance
Ou est la loi
The law governing the boarding house in Aminadab (Paris: Gallimard, 1942) is tirelessly, indeed tiresomely clarified, as though there were no end to the sentences concerning it, for even the most contradictory do not rule each other out but expand at great length to accommodate each other. Explications, interpretations are ceaselessly exchanged, projects of investigation and research are energetically initiated, reports circulate, documents pile …
The Dissimulating Harmony
Literary Economies and Critical Gifts
Intersections
Four writers--the first, eighteenth-century Frenchman whose works still re-tain their power to shock, scandalize, and instruct; the others, three twentieth-century Frenchmen, heirs and explicators of their earlier compatriot--form the central cast of characters of this literary-philosophical dialogue which seeks to transcend the barriers of time, space, and sexual identity imposed by traditional ap-proaches to literature. Professor Gallop, acknow…
Learn to Read, She Said
Albert des Capitales is an account of a torture session. It is one of the narratives in Marguerite Duras's La douleur.' I was not inclined, initially, to pay much attention to it. I was put off by various things, among them this: that Duras should not have hesitated to provide an account of torture with tone. That she should place one impersonal, expressionless phrase after the other like dull blows dealt in deliberate successionand thus, with th…
Double Dealing
Lost Beyond Telling
The Writing of the Disaster = L'écriture du Désastre
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century-world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster's infinite threat. First published in Frenc…
Maryse Conde's Les Derniers Rois mages
Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 1995
Tongue-Tied
MLN - Volume 114, Number 5, December 1999 (Comparative Literature Issue)
Tranced
Modern Visual Poetry
This learned and thorough book offers a panorama of visual poetry, from Apollinaire's first "calligramme," published in Les Soirées de Paris the year World War I began, to the hyperpoetry and holopoems which, as the 20th century drew to a close, you could access easily on UbuWeb. It takes in the exuberant experiments of the Italian Futurists, the "ascetic exercises" of 1950s Concrete poets, and the Dada-inspired interventions of Lettrists during …
Cloudy Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud, a lively partisan of formin literature, nevertheless has a cloudy side. This essay dwells on his attention to a formless haze that shadows all things' definition, and that form cannot avoid exposing wherever it declares itself
Distant Language
Geranium Logic
A Semite
In this memoir, the author excavates his family's past and fills out a portrait of an imposing, enigmatic father. René Guénoun was a teacher, pioneer, and supporter of Algerian independence. To be Algerian, pro-independence, a French citizen, a Jew, and a Communist were not, to René's mind, dissonant allegiances. He called himself a Semite, a word that he felt united Jewish and Arab worlds and best reflected a shared origin. He also believed that…
No music
"No music..." Ann Smock These words, "No music, not now!" appear in Phrase, Lacoue-Labarthe's book of poems and prose, published in 2000. They come toward the end of "Phrase XVII," which is called "Scène." "Pas de musique!" may well be the words that most attached me to this book when I first read through it; they are the words I've remembered it by ever since. This is probably because when I had the good fortune to know Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe,…
Give the Word
Give the Word
"Give the Word puts together Werner Hamacher's groundbreaking 95 Theses, a wide collection of never-before-published essays in response to individual theses, and Hamacher's own reaction to these scholars' study of his work"
Nel mezzo del cammin
"Nel mezzo del cammin":Queneau's Enfants du Limon Ann Smock (bio) I propose to examine here, with admiration, a single novel by Raymond Queneau, Les Enfants du Limon. Its two principal elements are politics and insanity: their ways of inspiring, or exploiting, each other. Or more simply, their general resemblance. At least so it seems if one rereads the novel today. Its title—Children of the Clay, in English—suggests the other strong current runn…
Listening for Blanchot
In this essay, I try to account for the impression I sometimes have while reading certain contemporary French poets to whom I've turned in an effort to depart the world of Blanchot. It is the impression that I hear his voice. By "Blanchot's voice" I mean a specific intonation : the accent, if you will, that distinguishes indifference. This accent is no one's special distinction—this tone belongs exclusively to none. So, my ear is peeled for what …
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