1st Edition

Poetic Images, Presence, and the Theater of Kenotic Rituals

By Enikő Sepsi Copyright 2022
250 Pages 40 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 40 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 40 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in which French poetry and theatre address this turn. Poetry in space and theatricality of poetry are... Read more

Introduction PART I: Image and presence: two trends in contemporary French poetry 1.Predecessors: Contemporary French poets in the pages of Nyugat and Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) Between 1909 and 1937 2. Yves Bonnefoy and the poetry of presence 3. The new lyricism 4. Conclusion PART II: Theatrical presence, poetic rituality, and the theater of kenotic rituals 5. Methodological considerations and the Hungarian Context of Reception 6. Kenosis in theology 7. Kenosis in Simone Weil’s mysticism 8. Mysticism in the approach to theater: The "kenotic" theater 9. Figures and Disfigurations of the Human Face 10. On Bearing Witness to a Poetic Ritual. Robert Wilson’s Deafman Glance as seen by János Pilinszky 11. Valère Novarina and János Pilinszky, or the Theater of Unselfed Poetry 12. Sacred or Holy? Dramaturgy in Valère Novarina’s theater 13. Emptiness, Space, and time in Valère Novarina’s theater 14. Rituals in Valère Novarina’s works 15. The Imaginary Animal 16. Novarina’s works produced in Hungary Summary 17. Appendix 1 18. Appendix 2 19. Appendix 3 20. Appendix 4

Biography

Enikő Sepsi is Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Arts Studies and General Humanities at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.