Significant Others, or Textual Congress
Concerning Baudelaire and Tranter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9613317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross Chambers (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-236 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9468 • E-ISSN: 2046-2913 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/ajfs.2018.20 |
| OpenAlex | W2905105972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay is a three step investigation of the relation between two poems, Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage”, and the Australian poet John Tranter’s “Grab Your Passport”. The first step rejects potential construals of intertextuality in terms of common metaphors such as “inspired”, “source-text”, “calque” on the grounds that they attribute a negative value to the “derived” text. On the contrary, when we adopt instead the concept of the paratext, Tranter’s poem could be seen to supplement “L’Invitation au Voyage” by making it function in a new idiom. At the same time, the Baudelaire poem echoes through it as they are read together: no longer is their relation determined by chronology. In the third step, Dichtung, the relation of similarity and difference is reconstrued through Jakobsonian poetics: as in the projection of the paradigmatic on to the syntagmatic axis, so each poem calls and responds to the other and language is enriched by their coexistence. (AF)
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |