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Writing Poetry Against the Grain: Or, What Can Be Seen in "Les Yeux des pauvres"

[...]here, as in texts such as "Assommons les pauvres," "La Fausse monnaie," or "Un plaisant," where the sphere of the social emerges in disfigured guises out of a blind-spot in the narrative which we might call "idiocy" (or, being radically self-absorbed), Ba...

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History
Humans
Ideology
Literary criticism
Mythology
Narrative poetry
Narrators
Poetry
Poverty
Prose
Prose poetry
Reading
Rubble
Spleen
Subjectivity
Violence
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