Nowell Smith, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-2507
(2018)
Rhythm-sense-subject, or: The dynamic un/enfolding of sense.
Comparative Critical Studies, 15 (3).
pp. 349-367.
ISSN 1744-1854
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Abstract
This article traces Henri Meschonnic's concerted attempts to grasp the interaction rhythm-sense-subject, and situates this with the broader concerns of his work: the critique of ‘sign-thinking’, the elaboration of rhythm as le continu, his reflection on historical subjectivity. Meschonnic's thinking of rhythm is of an exigency from which he himself often shrinks back, notably through a series of equivocations (between language and sense, between rhythm as such and an individual rhythmic figure, between discourse as activity and an individual's discourse/idiom). The article focuses on these equivocations, and argues that within them we come to see the complexity, and mutability, of the rhythm-sense-subject interaction. It ends by proposing that we think the place of rhythm in this interaction in terms not of continuity/discontinuity, as per Meschonnic, but rather as a ‘dynamic unfolding/enfolding of sense’.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2018 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 03:46 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67024 |
DOI: | 10.3366/ccs.2018.0300 |
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