"Because I could Not Stop for Death" de Mary Caponegro ou la poétique de l’empreinte

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies

关键词: Joseph Cornell;    Mary Caponegro;    Emily Dickinson;    Walter Benjamin;    intermédialité;    conversation;   

DOI  :  10.4000/caliban.5746

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In 2001, Jonathan Safran Foer published A Convergence of Birds, a collection of poems and narrative fictions in tribute to visual artist Joseph Cornell. The essay "Because I could Not Stop for Death" is Mary Caponegro’s poetic response to a shadow box Cornell dedicated to Emily Dickinson, Towards the Blue Peninsula. This article suggests that Caponegro’s text, which takes the form of an apocryphal epistolary exchange between Joseph Cornell and Emily Dickinson, toys with the tension between presence and absence. In the light of Georges Didi-Huberman’s reflection on Benjamin’s dialectical image, we argue that Caponegro replaces the memorial process with the telescoping of heterogeneous times.

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