What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject's transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Hubert Lucot. The author explores their work in the context of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, building a critical apparatus a 'poetics of becoming' that informs close readings of poems and prose. Moving beyond established criteria of classical literary criticism, the book both offers a comparative discussion of Deleuze's notions of literature and provides new insights into French writing, addressing the political dimension of contemporary poetry from the perspective of current theoretical radicalism.

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Jérôme Game is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Film Studies at the American University of Paris and Associate Researcher at Université Paris 8 and the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Lettres et Sciences Humaines. After receiving his PhD in French from the University of Cambridge, he spent two years as Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London. He is the editor of the volumes Porous Boundaries: Texts and Images in Twentieth-Century French Culture (2007), Jacques Rancière : Politique de l'esthétique (2009), Images des corps/Corps des images au cinéma (2010) and Le Récit aujourd'hui : Art et littérature (2011).

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Contents: A Poetics of Becoming - Christian Prigent, or Life as Piercing - Dominique Fourcade, or a Poetics of the Rhizome - Olivier Cadiot, or the Stuttering Self - Hubert Lucot, or the Writing of Duration - Towards a Politics of Becoming?