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À l'occasion du centième anniversaire de la naissance de Rafael Alberti (1902-1999), le colloque, organisé en décembre 2002, par le CREC, et dont les PSN publient ici les actes, tenait à rendre hommage à l'une des principales personnalités des lettres espagnoles dont l'œuvre monumentale (en poésie, théâtre, prose, mais aussi peinture et dessin, ce que l'on connaît moins) couvre plus de trois quarts de siècle et se caractérise par une exceptionnelle vitalité et la quête permanente d'une esthét...

avant-garde, esthétique, XXème siècle, Espagne, politique, littérature

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Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed out for readability. The problem with, and the paradox of this desired outcome, especially as it concerns Anglo-Saxon poetry, is that we are left with a document that translates an entire organizing principle based on oral transmission (and perhaps composition) into a visual, textual realm of writing and reading. The sense of loss or nostalgia for the old form seems a necessary and ever-present shadow over modern Beowulfs. What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesn’t bother with any such nostalgia? When the entire organizational apparatus of the poem—instead of being uneasily approximated in modern verse form—is itself translated into a modern organizing principle, i.e., the visual text? This is the approach that poet Thomas Meyer takes; as he writes, [I]nstead of the text’s orality, perhaps perversely I went for the visual. Deciding to use page layout (recto/ verso) as a unit. Every translation I’d read felt impenetrable to me with its block after block of nearly uniform lines. Among other quirky decisions made in order to open up the text, the project wound up being a kind of typological specimen book for long American poems extant circa 1965. Having variously the “look” of Pound’s Cantos, Williams’ Paterson, or Olson or Zukofsky, occasionally late Eliot, even David Jones

Beowulf, Old English poetry, modern translation, avant-garde poetry

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musique --- XXème siècle --- composition --- avant-garde --- compositeur --- création --- opéra

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How can we think of the “aura” of (sacred) contexts and (sacred) works? How to think of individual and collective (esthetic/religious) experiences? What to make of the manipulative dimension of (religious and esthetic) “auratic” experiences? Is the work of art still capable of mediating the experience of the “sacred,” and under what conditions? What is the significance of the “eschatological” dimension of both art and religion (the sense of “ending”)? Can theology offer a way to reaffirm the creative capacities of the human being as something that characterizes the very condition of being human? This Special Issue aspires to contribute to the growing literature on contemporary art and religion, and to explore the new ways of thinking of art and the sacred (in their esthetic, ideological, and institutional dimensions) in the context of contemporary culture.

sacred --- art --- freedom --- beauty --- art --- aesthetic --- haptic --- iconology --- iconography --- book(s) --- reading/readers --- Jerome --- Magdalene --- Vermeer --- aura --- retro-avant-garde --- aesthetics --- mysticism --- digital imagery --- photography --- concepts: image --- art --- aesthetic --- post-secular --- wonder --- Franciscan theology --- intentionality --- sensory experience --- Augustine --- rhythm --- harmony --- sentience --- ratio --- culture --- faith --- secularism --- aesthetic experience --- wonder --- art --- beauty --- theurgy --- Gerhard Richter --- contemporary painting --- Strip --- chance --- belief --- skepticism --- authorship --- abstract painting --- Cologne Cathedral window --- n/a