Pour parler de la poétique aujourd'hui

This article is a transcription of Michel Deguy's keynote lecture at the 2015 International Colloquium for Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies. Deguy adopts a conversational tone to address questions associated with his perception of how literature produces knowledge through change. For Deguy, the contemporary era is defined by its preoccupation with Poetics and he underlines this presupposition by returning to his long-term dialogues with Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Hölderlin. The definition of the word poetry is problematic today because of the multiplicity of forms that claim it. Although vital, the role of the poet is also difficult to discern. In order to understand how poetry functions today, he develops several key ideas about comparison, changes in paradigms, language as the conservator of the relics of tradition, the transformation of culture into the culturel, translation, and his version of ecology

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