The Fountains of Neptune ou l'écriture alchimique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6167859 |
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| Authors | Jean-Yves Pellegrin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 44-44 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue française d’études américaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0397-7870 • E-ISSN: 1776-3061 |
| Publisher | Éditions Belin (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3917/rfea.093.0044 |
| OpenAlex | W1886286797 |
| Language | FR |
This article examines the numerous water metaphors at work in Rikki Ducornet's The Fountains of Neptune and suggests that water, being a most mutable substance, is used as an agent of linguistic transformations reminiscent of alchemical transmutations. However, this project, which aims at sub-stantializing writing, miscarries as words fail to turn into things. Yet this very failure is what confers its specific and almost magic power on Ducornet's writing
Art · Astronomy · Neptune · Physics · Planet · French Literature and Critical Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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