Between Impressionism and Modernism: Some Do Not . . ., a Poetics of the Entre-Deux
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This paper examines how, while acknowledging his literary heritage and prolonging it through his practice of impressionism, Ford strives to negotiate with the process of breaking with the past, of radical innovation underlying the ‘modernist’ movements. How is the aporia between tradition and modernity resolved – or perhaps deliberately left unresolved? The paper focuses on Some Do Not . . ., where the writing wavers between a practice of impressionist principles and a more ‘modern’ aesthetics. The text reveals an eclecticism which makes it appear at times as a collage of various literary orientations, never quite deciding between them – perhaps precisely, resolving not to decide. The novel thus appears suspended in a no man’s land between tradition and modernity. An overview of the poetics of spaces confirms the notion that the text – its characters, aesthetics, and reader – is situated within a gap, an interval.
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