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The Surrealist Muse and the sister arts: René Char's ‘Artine’

The Surrealist Muse and the sister arts: René Char's ‘Artine’ : René Char's 'Artine' La femme est aussi dang, pour le poète que le poète pour la femme. --André Breton and Paul Eluard, 'Prière d'insérer' The mother is not the true parent of the child Which is called hers. She is a nurse who tends the growth Of the young seed planted by its true parent, the male. So, if Fate spares the child, she keeps it, as one might Keep for some friend a growing plant. --/Eschylus, The Eumenides Recent critical treatments of the Muse figure, such as Mary K. DeShazer's Inspiring Women, have largely focused on female uses of the Muse--the attempts of female writers to define themselves as artists through a strong and inspiring female figure. But the overwhelming majority of invocations--traditional male uses of the Muse--have not been adequately examined. The Muse possesses a complex literary history difficult to separate from theology, philosophy and aesthetics. Clearly, all appeals to a Muse make statements about the author's relation to tradition; an invocation usually expresses in compact form a writer's artistic and/or political loyalties and ambitions--it can comprise a gesture of conformity or of refusal. Furthermore, an invocation not only defines the position from which a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

The Surrealist Muse and the sister arts: René Char's ‘Artine’

Eichbauer, Mary E.
Paragraph , Volume 12 (2): 124 – Jul 1, 1989
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Oxford University Press 1989
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0264-8334
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1750-0176
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10.3366/para.1989.0009
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: René Char's 'Artine' La femme est aussi dang, pour le poète que le poète pour la femme. --André Breton and Paul Eluard, 'Prière d'insérer' The mother is not the true parent of the child Which is called hers. She is a nurse who tends the growth Of the young seed planted by its true parent, the male. So, if Fate spares the child, she keeps it, as one might Keep for some friend a growing plant. --/Eschylus, The Eumenides Recent critical treatments of the Muse figure, such as Mary K. DeShazer's Inspiring Women, have largely focused on female uses of the Muse--the attempts of female writers to define themselves as artists through a strong and inspiring female figure. But the overwhelming majority of invocations--traditional male uses of the Muse--have not been adequately examined. The Muse possesses a complex literary history difficult to separate from theology, philosophy and aesthetics. Clearly, all appeals to a Muse make statements about the author's relation to tradition; an invocation usually expresses in compact form a writer's artistic and/or political loyalties and ambitions--it can comprise a gesture of conformity or of refusal. Furthermore, an invocation not only defines the position from which a

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