%0 Book %A Jérôme Game %D 2011 %C Oxford, United Kingdom %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 1422-9005 %@ 9783035301755 %T Poetic Becomings %B Studies in Contemporary French Literature %R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0175-5 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043741 %X What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject’s transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Hubert Lucot. The author explores their work in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, building a critical apparatus – a ‘poetics of becoming’ – that informs close readings of poems and prose. Moving beyond established criteria of classical literary criticism, the book both offers a comparative discussion of Deleuze’s notions of literature and provides new insights into French writing, addressing the political dimension of contemporary poetry from the perspective of current theoretical radicalism. %K political dimension of contemporary French writing, contemporary French poetry, Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Hubert Lucot, Gilles Deleuze's philosophy %G English