Friday, February 18th, 2022
Op 10 maart 2022 om 17u wordt een nieuw boek over het werk van Jeroen Mettes gepresenteerd via een livestream vanuit het Poëziecentrum in Gent. In Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie, samengesteld door Siebe Bluijs en Bram Ieven en uitgegeven in de SEL-reeks bij Academia Press, vormt de experimentele dichtkunst en politieke essayistiek van Mettes het […]
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Friday, October 4th, 2013
CREATION Poesie kann nur durch Poesie kritisiert werden. Friedrich Schlegel It is the apparent fate of the critic to live in a time of restoration. Poetry always already reaches him in ruins – ruins that are nevertheless prejudged and predetermined as some X, some cultural variable, to be further judged, determined and ‘explained’. Restoration […]
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
TOWARDS A DELEUZIAN POETICS Article written for an unpublished book edited by Frans-Willem Korsten and Vincent Meelberg. Poetry is often understood to be “located” somewhere on a line running from language to music. Louis Zukofsky, the twentieth century American poet, even defined poetry as an integral with lower limit speech and upper limit music. According […]
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Thursday, July 4th, 2013
What interests us in romanticism is that we still belong to the era it opened up. Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe (1988:8) But in order to render myself intelligible I must previously, in as few words as possible, explain my ideas, first, of a poem; and secondly, of poetry itself, in kind and in essence. Coleridge (1982:171) […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2019
Bij Lannoo/Academia Press verscheen onlangs de essaybundel Gewaagde geschriften. Interacties tussen pornografie en literatuur in Vlaanderen en Nederland, samengesteld en geredigeerd door Karen Van Hove & Bart Vervaeck. Gewaagde geschriften is het twaalfde deel van de reeks van het Studiecentrum voor Experimentele Literatuur. Voor dit boek schreven Siebe Bluijs en Bram Ieven een hoofdstuk met […]
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
This is the abstract of Jeroen Mettes’ uncompleted PhD — “Modern Western poetry is historically defined by its break with traditional forms. The caesura that separates poetic tradition from poetic modernity, however, is not simply a matter of one poetics being replaced by another poetics, i.e., a new set of forms; a full crise […]
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Sunday, August 4th, 2013
PART I: CHAOTIC BEGINNING 1. CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO MODERN POETRY 2. THE CRITICAL AGE Gib nach dem löblichen Verlangen, Von vorn die Schöpfung anzufangen! Goethe 3: 273 Der Idealismus ist der Mittelpunkt und die Grundlage der deutschen Literatur. Friedrich Schlegel In the previous chapter I attempted to show the relative inadequacy of current […]
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