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"With my jingle in your brain, Allow the Bridge to arch again" How are we to understand Leonard Cohen’s plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? In search of an answer to this question this study considers the different guises or “demons” that the Canadian singer-songwriter adopts. The countless roles assumed by Cohen’s personas are not some innocent game, but strategies in response to the sometimes conflicting demands of a “life in art”: they serve as masks that represent the performer’s face and state of mind in a heightened yet detached way. In and around the artistic work they are embodied by different guises and demons: image (the poser), artistry (the...
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Traces the development of poet laureate George Bowering's many writings through four decades.
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Textes inédits ou publiés en revue (France, Belgique). Une écriture marquée par des origines formalistes, progressivement convertie à "la lisibilité" et dont l'ambition principale est peut-être de "faire revenir en surface le fond sexuel de toute chose" (p. 49), de susciter "un texte infatigable d'appétit". Prix du Gouverneur général 1986.
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