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Retour sans retour: Michael Riffaterre, chasseur de textes
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 44-58
- 10.1353/esp.0.0196
- Article
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Riffaterre’s 1969 essay “La Métaphore filée dans la poésie surréaliste” to this day marks a paradigm shift in the analysis and understanding of Surrealist texts. I describe Riffaterre’s own “retroactive reading” of symbolist texts in the light of his work on Surrealism and contrast his theory of ekphrasis with claims made by André Breton.