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Picking Up Narrative Pieces in a Surrealist Prose Poem
Author(s) -
Metzidakis Stamos
Publication year - 1985
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.1600-0730.1985.tb00841.x
Subject(s) - narrative , poetry , literature , meaning (existential) , repetition (rhetorical device) , perspective (graphical) , art , philosophy , history , linguistics , epistemology , visual arts
This study involves a problem of narrative discontinuity in a text from André Breton's prose poem collection, Poisson soluble. It is an analysis of how certain textual signifiers – seen from the perspective of certain repeated formal aspects – generate a series of morphophonemic paradigms which take on a peculiar narrative quality of their own for the reader attuned to repetition. The narration in question is located above and beyond the level of “ordinary” referentiality. Instead of meaning just what they do “normally” on the denotative and connotative planes, these signifiers create a kind of subliminal, and supplementary, narration which justifies the otherwise seemingly gratuitous details encountered in the later part of the poem.