Home - Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Kenneth White et la géopoétique. Pour White, à la base de toute culture, il y a une poétique, qui est une "pratique fondatrice". "Dans la culture grecque classique, si la politique est une préoccupation première, la culture n’existerait pas, ne respirerait pas sans la poésie océanique d’Homère : l’agora est baignée de ses vagues. " Dans la culture chinoise, il y a le Livre des odes, et à côté de la pensée confucianiste centrée sur des questions éthiques, il y a l’espace poétique ouvert par des poètes errants inspirés par le bouddhisme et le taoïsme. Dans notre culture moderne toutefois, la poétique n’est qu’une "discipline" reléguée au fond des universités, et qui n’intéresse que les spécialistes du langage voire de la métrique.
Il est assez symptomatique que, dans un numéro récent du Magazine littéraire consacré à la " nouvelle poésie française ", aucune place n’ait été faite à un courant fort et vivant de l’écriture poétique contemporaine apparu dans les années quatre-vingt. La beauté est partout Même le plus rebelle. Liens | La Traversée. Archipel de géopoétique. Kenneth White. Kenneth White 1936- (et anglaise) Essay: Rambling Men | Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. There is a mass of prose-writers, on both sides of the Atlantic, for whom walking has been both subject and inspiration, among them Boswell and Johnson, Walter Scott, Dickens and Carlyle. Those most often quoted belong to the nineteenth century. I think especially of Hazlitt’s essay, “On Going a Journey,” Thoreau’s “Walking,” Emerson’s “Notes on Walking,” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Walking Tours.”
The essayist William Hazlitt was inspired to write by meeting Wordsworth and Coleridge at the age of nineteen. He became, in many ways, the obstreperous younger brother of the Romantics, though with more energy and grit and (a favorite word) gusto, than one associates with any of them. Like Wordsworth, he preferred his own company. Thoreau’s walks were clearly undertaken in a very different spirit. Such “sauntering” shows up most lyrically in his account of the sunset lighting up the pines at Spaulding’s Farm. Introduction à la géopoétique. Archipel de géopoétique. Journal » books.
In this book, De Botton turns the purpose of a travel guide on its head and instead of providing advice on where to travel, asks why we go places — and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. In the first chapter, On Travelling Places, he delivers a brilliant analysis of some unexpectedly poetic travelling places: airport terminals, train stations, motels, or the service station – “forsaken, on the ridge of the motorway, far from all habitation”, and refers to artists who, like Baudelaire and Hopper, were “alive to the power of such liminal travelling places”.
As recalled by his Invitation au voyage, Baudelaire felt incomfortable at home. He ever dreamt of leaving France for somewhere far away, with no-reminders of daily life, and eventually ventured to India, only to feel lethargic and reminicscent of his homeplace, evidencing a lifelong ambivalence towards travel. “Journeys are the midwives of thought.