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Ce volume réunit les 31 contributions des Actes du colloque du CUER MA (2004). Étudier la digression dans la littérature médiévale constituait une sorte de défi. Il ne s'agissait ni de condamner ces excursus ni d'en faire l'éloge. Qui, de l'auteur ou du lecteur, est le plus apte à borner l'espace digressif et à l'apprécier ? Dans les précautions que les auteurs prennent à commenter ou à justifier leur écart, se prononcent les fonctions différentes, mais non exclusives l'une de l'autre, qu'il est censé remplir. La digression se présente comme utile; qu'elle cherche à amuser, à séduire, à conseiller, à renseigner, à engager à l'action, ou à faire participer le lecteur à l'acte d'écriture, elle relève toujours d'une stratégie. Du XIIe au XVe siècle, son emploi témoigne d'une volonté sommative, avouée, voire revendiquée, dans les encyclopédies, les traités didactiques, les récits de voyages, les chroniques, plus masquée dans les œuvres de fiction, où son usage permet paradoxalement à nombre d'auteurs de renforcer la cohésion d'une matière narrative sujette aux égarements du plaisir de raconter. Lecteurs en quête de sens, nous montrons comme nous sommes portés à découvrir sous l'abondance des mots et le déplacement des points de vue un ordre de la pensée. Quant à l'usage médiéval de la digression, il témoigne d'une littérature qui cherche à définir sa fonction dans la société, son utilité, son pouvoir, qui laisse voir comment elle s'enracine dans une tradition qu'elle ne cesse de renouveler.

Old French literature --- Thematology --- Aesthetics of art --- Digression (Rhetoric) --- Literature, Medieval --- Art, Medieval --- Digression (Rhétorique) --- Littérature médiévale --- Art médiéval --- Fiction --- French literature --- Technique. --- History and criticism. --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Digression (Rhétorique) --- Littérature médiévale --- Art médiéval --- Mediaeval literature and art --- Criticism --- Fiction - Technique. --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism. --- littérature médiévale --- digression --- excursus

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.

English poetry. --- A Little Help. --- A Song to David. --- A. E. Housman. --- Adage. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anna Akhmatova. --- Apathy. --- Barry Hines. --- Blank verse. --- Bob and wheel. --- Book. --- Cleanness. --- Conceit. --- Confessional writing. --- Creative writing. --- Cymbeline. --- Dark Night of the Soul. --- Death of a Naturalist. --- Diary. --- Dramatic monologue. --- Dream vision. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Edward Hirsch. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Erica Jong. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Excursus. --- Extended metaphor. --- Fart. --- Fear of Flying (novel). --- Fuck. --- Goblin Market. --- Hilary Mantel. --- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. --- Howl and Other Poems. --- Hyperbole. --- Imagism. --- In Parenthesis. --- Incorruptibility. --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Jargon. --- John Wain. --- Kazuo Ishiguro. --- Kenneth Koch. --- Leonard Cohen. --- Libido. --- Literary fiction. --- Lord Alfred Douglas. --- Lyrical Ballads. --- Man of the People. --- Maurice Riordan. --- Melodrama. --- Mutability (poem). --- Narcissism. --- Necromancy. --- Of Mice and Men. --- Orwellian. --- Pararhyme. --- Pen name. --- Peter Reading. --- Philip Larkin. --- Phrenology. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Pun. --- R. S. Thomas. --- Ray Bradbury. --- Rhyme. --- Robert Burns. --- Robert Conquest. --- Robert Frost. --- Romanticism. --- Round Table. --- Sayre's law. --- Self-help book. --- Sensationalism. --- Simile. --- Skunk Hour. --- Sonnet 23. --- Ted Hughes. --- The Anthologist. --- The Faerie Queene. --- The Female Eunuch. --- The Grand Budapest Hotel. --- The Squire's Tale. --- Thom Gunn. --- Thomas Nashe. --- To His Coy Mistress. --- W. H. Auden. --- W. S. Graham. --- Walker Evans. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Savage Landor. --- Way Out (TV series). --- Wessex Poems and Other Verses. --- Wilfred Owen. --- William Blake. --- World to come.