The verbal and the visual in Calligrammes Cover Image

La lettre et la figure dans Calligrammes de Guillaume Apollinaire
The verbal and the visual in Calligrammes

Author(s): Moucherif Abdelhakim
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: Guillaume Apollinaire; visual poetry; calligram; verbal text; polysemy; painting

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to Guillaume Apollinaire original poetic experience’s who tried to found a synthetic art combining heterogeneous semiotic systems such as painting and poetry. We propose, then, to study the various complementary relationship, polysemy or counterpoint established between the letters, poetic text and pictorial images.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 109-118
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French