Chantal Maillard and the Poetics of Harm. Significations of the Body in Matar a Platón

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https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2024.31.9

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Literary Theory, Phenomenology, Chantal Maillard, Gilles Deleuze, Corporeality

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the notion of physical harm in Chantal Maillard’s Matar a Platón [Killing Plato] (2004). First, it offers a theoretical and conceptual framework of «phenomenological poetry», a lyrical proposal put forward by the author herself. Then, it examines the interdisciplinary links between poetry and philosophy in the volume and, more specifically, it studies the notion of the Deleuzian event to characterize the injured body. Finally, it offers a reading of the long poem “Escribir” [“Writing”], which is included as an addendum in the volume, a text in which physical damage is explored in the first person. As a result, it is possible to glimpse a renewed reflection on the body, pain, and identity through Maillard’s poetic discourse.

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2024-07-30

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Fernández Martínez, S. (2024). Chantal Maillard and the Poetics of Harm. Significations of the Body in Matar a Platón. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (31), 148–165. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2024.31.9

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No. 31 (2024): New Realisms in Spanish Literature and Cinema since 2008

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Miscellaneous

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