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Poetic Nuptials

Poetic Nuptials Introduction This paper seeks to examine the rich and polysemic expression poetic nuptials in the context of reading and translating the work of Luce Irigaray. While some of Irigaray’s work is written in a seemingly approachable and accessible style, other texts are densely poetic and invite different kinds of reading relationship. I deliberately use the plural kinds because these poetic texts do not demand just one (kind of) reading. They can be read pleasurably even without ‘full’ understanding. Equally, sections, even words or expressions (such as that of poetic nuptials) can be lingered over at length so that layer upon layer of connotation becomes apparent, and it is the relationship between these connotations which is crucial. Poetic nuptials, I would suggest, can take place between text and reader or translator; they can take place within the text, between elements of the text; they can be a mode of intertextual relationship — the way in which the text stages its relationship with other texts. Poetic nuptials are an alternative to ways of reading such as critique which demand a particular distance between what become subject and object. Poetic nuptials would take place as if between (at least) two subjects, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Poetic Nuptials

Still, Judith
Paragraph , Volume 25 (3): 7 – Nov 1, 2002
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Reading—Interpreting—Imparting
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0264-8334
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1750-0176
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10.3366/para.2002.25.3.7
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Introduction This paper seeks to examine the rich and polysemic expression poetic nuptials in the context of reading and translating the work of Luce Irigaray. While some of Irigaray’s work is written in a seemingly approachable and accessible style, other texts are densely poetic and invite different kinds of reading relationship. I deliberately use the plural kinds because these poetic texts do not demand just one (kind of) reading. They can be read pleasurably even without ‘full’ understanding. Equally, sections, even words or expressions (such as that of poetic nuptials) can be lingered over at length so that layer upon layer of connotation becomes apparent, and it is the relationship between these connotations which is crucial. Poetic nuptials, I would suggest, can take place between text and reader or translator; they can take place within the text, between elements of the text; they can be a mode of intertextual relationship — the way in which the text stages its relationship with other texts. Poetic nuptials are an alternative to ways of reading such as critique which demand a particular distance between what become subject and object. Poetic nuptials would take place as if between (at least) two subjects,

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Published: Nov 1, 2002

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