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Eluard's game of construction
Author(s) -
York R. A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1977.tb00713.x
Subject(s) - alienation , assertion , poetry , sequence (biology) , variation (astronomy) , order (exchange) , epistemology , sociology , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , psychology , linguistics , art , computer science , political science , law , economics , physics , finance , biology , astrophysics , genetics , programming language
Comment on Eluard's poetry has tended to concentrate on single images. the present study aims at showing that the images in the poems of Capitale de la douleur are combined according to certain regular patterns; they represent certain attitudes to the outside world, which normally are stated in a specific sequence, although certain stages of this sequence may be omitted or dealt with only briefly and there may be some variation, occasionally, of the basic order. the fundamental sequence is (1) immersion in the world; (2) awareness of the otherness of the world; (3) conflict and alienation; (4) assertion of the individual; (5) failure of the individual; (6) unity, love and imagination.