The quick and the dead: Riffaterre's hypogrammatic reading of leiris

Nottingham French Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 67-77

  Hand, Seán ^a  

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DOI: 10.3366/nfs.2003-2.006     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. My remarks here are based principally on the following representative works by Riffaterre: Essais de stylistique structurale (Paris: Flammarion, 1971)
2. Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978)
3. La Production du texte (Paris: Seuil, 1979)
4. 'La syllepse intertextuelle', Poétique, 40 (1979), 496-501
5. "The Intertextual Unconscious', Critical Inquiry, XIII (1987), 371-85
6. Fictional Truth (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
7. 'Compulsory Reader Response: the Intertextual Drive', in Intertextuality: Theories and Practices, edited by Michael Worton and Judith Still (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), pp. 56-78
8. 'Pulsion et paronomase: sur la poétique de Michel Leiris', Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1-2 (1990), 179-200
9. I have previously given a brief reading of some other of Riffaterre's texts, in relation to intertextuality and transference, in 'Missing You: Intertextuality, Transference, and the Language of Love', in Intertextuality: Theories and Practices, edited by Michael Worton and Judith Still (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), pp. 79-91
10. I have tried to test my conclusions by consulting the following articles from Riffaterre's vast output: 'Describing Poetic Structures: an Approach to Baudelaire's "Les Chats'", Yale French Studies, 36-37 (1966), 200-42
11. 'The Poetic Functions of Intertextual Humour', Romanic Review, 65 (1974), 238-93
12. 'The Making of a Literary Sign: miroirs sans tain', French Forum, 2 (1977), 160-67
13. 'Generating Lautréamont's Text', in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-structuralist Criticism, edited by Josué V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell University Press and London: Methuen, 1979), pp. 404-20
14. 'Intertextualité Surréaliste', Mélusine, 1 (1979), 27-37
15. 'Descriptive Imagery', Yale French Studies, 61 (1981), 107-25
16. 'L'Intertexte inconnu', Littérature, XI:41 (1981), 4-7
17. 'Ponge intertextuel', Études françaises, xvii:1-2 (1981), 73-85
18. 'Sémanalyse de l'intertexte', Texte, 2 (1983), 171-75
19. 'Contraintes de lecture: l'humour balzacien', L'Esprit Créateur, 24:ii (1984), 12-22
20. 'Prosopopeia', Yale French Studies, 69 (1985), 107-23
21. 'Sémiosis hugolienne', in Hugo le fabuleux, edited by Jacques Seebacher and Anne Ubersfeld (Paris: Seghers, 1985), pp. 38-57
22. 'The Mind's Eye: Memory and Textuality', Romanic Review, 79 (1988), 7-21
23. 'Orion voyeur: L'Ecriture intertextuelle de Simon', Modern Language Notes, CIII (1988), 711-35
24. 'Sylleptic Symbols: Rimbaud's "Mémoire"', in Nineteenth-century French poetry. Introductions to Close Reading, edited by Christopher Prendergast (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 178-98
25. 'The Surrealist Libido: Breton's "Poisson soluble, no. 8'", in André Breton Today, edited by Anna Balakian and Rudolf Kuenzli (New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1989), pp. 59-66
26. 'Rimbaud intertextuel', in Rimbaud à la loupe, edited by Steve Murphy and George Hugo Tucker (Charleville-Mézières: Musée-Bibliothèque Rimbaud, 1990), pp. 93-106
27. 'Énonciation et intertexte', in Énonciation et parti pris, edited by Walter De Mulder, Franc Schuerewegen and Liliane Tasmowski (Amsterdam et Atlanta CA: Rodopi, 1992), pp. 301-309
28. 'Paradoxes décadents', in Rhétoriques fin de siècle, réunis et présentés par Mary Shaw et François Cornilliant (Paris: Bourgeois, 1992), pp. 220-34
29. 'Ekphrasis lyrique', in Lire le regard: André Breton et la peinture, edited by Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (Paris: Lachenal et Ritter, 1993), pp. 179-98
30. 'Contraintes de lecture: L'ambiguïté' in Comment la littérature agit-elle?, edited by Michel Picard (Paris: Klincksieck, 1994), pp. 119-34
31. 'Contraintes intertextuelles', in Texte(s)et intertexte(s), études réunies par Éric Le Calvez et Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Amsterdam et Atlanta CA: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 35-53
32. Michel Leiris, 'Les Veilleurs de Londres', in Failles (1924-1934)
33. collected in Haut Mal suivi de Autres lancers (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), pp. 111-18
34. 'Écumes de la Havane' in Orées (1966-1968)
35. Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes, établi et annoté par Y.-G. Le Dantec (Paris: Gallimard, 1961), pp. 70-71
36. For a brief general consideration of both catachresis and hapax, see 'Contraintes intertextuelles', pp. 37 and 44
37. 'Au vif' in Vivantes cendres, innommées, (1957-58)
38. collected in Mots sans mémoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), pp. 135-52, (p. 143)
39. La Règle du jeu (Paris: Gallimard, 1948-76)
40. Biffures, 1948
41. Fourbis, 1955
42. Fibrilles, 1966
43. Frêle Bruit, 1976
44. See 'La Syllepse intertextuelle', p. 501
45. See, for example, 'L'Intertexte inconnu'
46. La Rose du désert (1939-40)
47. collected in Haut Mal suivi de Autres lancers, pp. 160-75
48. La Possession et ses aspects théâtraux chez les Éthiopiens de Gondar (Paris: Plon, 1958)
49. See also Ioan Lewis, Ecstatic Religion (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971)
50. I have analysed this scene in much greater detail in my book, Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
51. See qSemiotics of Poetry, p. 166