Spatialite textuelle dans la poesie contemporaine: Le langage et son espace dans les oeuvres d'Anne-Marie Albiach, Jean Laude et Gilles Cyr (French text)

Modern poetry has shown considerable interest for the relationship between language and space by exploring, among others, the possibilities of the theme as well as those of visual composition. This study aims to analyze the patterns of spatial semantic relations within poems, patterns we will call textual spatiality («spatialité textuelle»). Our intent is to show the commonality between the various components (linguistic and visual) of the representations of space within a poem. Three works comprise the corpus of study: Mezza Voce by Anne-Marie Albiach (1984), La Trame inhabitée de la lumière by Jean Laude (1989) and Diminution dune pièce by Gilles Cyr (1983). The study essentially consists of the presentation of textual analyses through which we hope to single out certain semantic relations that further the emergence of spatiality in poems. We will draw upon the works on language and the perception of space by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to investigate the relationship between the experience of space and the structure of discourse.; A first section of chapter one reviews a selection of poetic works of modernity that greatly contributed to the development of expressive forms of space in language. The second section presents a body of critical works sharing a common phenomenological thread that have tried to analyze literary texts while looking for traces of perception within language.; The second chapter focuses on the collection Mezza Voce by Anne-Marie Albiach. The writing of this poet is characterized by the spatial and visual tension that emerges between the discursive components of her poems. Analysis of the collection will lead to reflection on the question of verse, often challenged by the inclusion of visual components.; The third chapter deals with the collection La Trame inhabitée de la lumière in which Jean Laude uses blanks and typographic variations to bring forth a voice that contemplates the elusive character of the world. We will study, among others, those structures that produce effects of sequence and continuity between verses, effects that constitute the spatiality found in Laude's poems.; The fourth and last chapter takes on Diminution dune pièce by Gilles Cyr.{09}This poetry is characterized by an economy of words and verses that gives structure to a textual spatiality within a spare and measured framework. Amongst others we will observe the ordered character of the representations of space, a character that reflects the attitude of the subject with regard to the world.; The analysis of these works will lead us to assert that textual spatiality is a semantic pattern essentially based on to the possibility of segmenting and regrouping the voice in order to express a particular relation to space.