![Imaginaire des lieux, imaginaire des mots. «Russie», «Norvège», «Andalousie» ou la Magie des Toponymes étrangers](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2014_28147.jpg)
Imaginaire des lieux, imaginaire des mots. «Russie», «Norvège», «Andalousie» ou la Magie des Toponymes étrangers
The reverie about the pure signifier, represented most often by a simple proper name, comes about with at least one of the most celebrated French-speaking contemporary poets, Philippe Jaccottet, in producing at least diverse connotations. Yet a central issue seems to emerge constantly from this metaphorical magma, involving the metonymic development of a network of closely-knit, semantically motivated associations, in order to go beyond the postmodern nonsense of language by a return to its original genetic ἀρχή.
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