Publication Date

9-2025

Description

The poetic works of Suzanne Doppelt and Véronique Vassiliou take shape from an intriguing combination of technical devices and knowledge usually attributed to extra-literary disciplines, ranging from science and technology to the arts, and from the occult to domestic ecology. With a clear propensity for encyclopedism, their interdisciplinary works—which in fact have everything to do with indiscipline—orchestrate a playful confrontation of divergent domains, bringing to light innovative objects of thought around which to articulate multiple leçons de choses (object lessons) about more or less proven theories, from ancient Greece to the extreme contemporary moment. As a result, a whole world invites itself and multiplies its material in their works, leading ultimately to experiences of decentering reality, through which poetry reinvents its forms and referents. This article explores the issues at stake in these undisciplined literary practices, which bring poetics to the crossroads of knowledge.

Journal

MLN

Volume

140

Issue

4

First Page

996

Last Page

1016

Department

French & Francophone Studies

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2025.a975659

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