Reviews by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd
E-rea Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone 1. Pastoral Sounds / 2. Histories of Space, Spaces of History, 2017
This paper was written by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, published in E-rea, the online journal of the L... more This paper was written by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, published in E-rea, the online journal of the Laboratory for Anglophone Studies and Research (Laboratoire d’études et de recherche sur le monde anglophone - LERMA) 14.2.2017
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd teaches American literature and literary translation at the University of Poitiers. She has published mostly on contemporary fiction, notably on Thomas Pynchon; she coedited Thomas Pynchon with Gilles Chamerois in Profils Américains, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (Montpellier, 2014). An interest in the interplay of poetic schemes and narrative has led to her current research on contemporary poets and artists Fanny Howe, Tom Konyves and Gary Hurst, who all experiment in multimedia poetic creation.
ABSTRACT:
The poetry of Canadian poet Tom Konyves offers sketches of urban pastoral in which sounds play a central part. They are constitutive of the environments construed by the poems as well as of the poems as environmental forms. Resting on Susanna Lidström and Greg Garrard’s conception of “environmental thinking” in the poetic process, this paper looks at two poems (a long textual piece and a “videopoem” – a hybrid poetic form bringing together text, image and sound to produce a poetic experience), and examines the ways in which sounds contribute to create the complex environment of the poem, poised between presence and dissolution.
Keywords :Tom Konyves, videopoem, sound, environmental thinking, estrangement, experience, dissolution
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Reviews by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd teaches American literature and literary translation at the University of Poitiers. She has published mostly on contemporary fiction, notably on Thomas Pynchon; she coedited Thomas Pynchon with Gilles Chamerois in Profils Américains, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (Montpellier, 2014). An interest in the interplay of poetic schemes and narrative has led to her current research on contemporary poets and artists Fanny Howe, Tom Konyves and Gary Hurst, who all experiment in multimedia poetic creation.
ABSTRACT:
The poetry of Canadian poet Tom Konyves offers sketches of urban pastoral in which sounds play a central part. They are constitutive of the environments construed by the poems as well as of the poems as environmental forms. Resting on Susanna Lidström and Greg Garrard’s conception of “environmental thinking” in the poetic process, this paper looks at two poems (a long textual piece and a “videopoem” – a hybrid poetic form bringing together text, image and sound to produce a poetic experience), and examines the ways in which sounds contribute to create the complex environment of the poem, poised between presence and dissolution.
Keywords :Tom Konyves, videopoem, sound, environmental thinking, estrangement, experience, dissolution
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd teaches American literature and literary translation at the University of Poitiers. She has published mostly on contemporary fiction, notably on Thomas Pynchon; she coedited Thomas Pynchon with Gilles Chamerois in Profils Américains, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (Montpellier, 2014). An interest in the interplay of poetic schemes and narrative has led to her current research on contemporary poets and artists Fanny Howe, Tom Konyves and Gary Hurst, who all experiment in multimedia poetic creation.
ABSTRACT:
The poetry of Canadian poet Tom Konyves offers sketches of urban pastoral in which sounds play a central part. They are constitutive of the environments construed by the poems as well as of the poems as environmental forms. Resting on Susanna Lidström and Greg Garrard’s conception of “environmental thinking” in the poetic process, this paper looks at two poems (a long textual piece and a “videopoem” – a hybrid poetic form bringing together text, image and sound to produce a poetic experience), and examines the ways in which sounds contribute to create the complex environment of the poem, poised between presence and dissolution.
Keywords :Tom Konyves, videopoem, sound, environmental thinking, estrangement, experience, dissolution