A Timely Villon: Anachrony and Premodern Poetic Fiction

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2021.0014

Helen Solterer

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Abstract

Abstract:Jacques Rancière's poetic concept of anachrony provides a critical tool for probing the many times of premodern poetry. By suggesting the way poems "take time against the grain," anachrony helps us to entertain them as "modes of connection," as "events," that can become present in times other than when they were first created. In Rancière's terms, anachronous poems make leaps in time, and activated once more, engage publics in various new places, about questions foreign to their first era. My test case in this essay: The Ballad of the Hanged Men and The Testament of François Villon. By examining literary translations of Villon's poetry in a growing transnational context, I argue for the unpredictable timeliness of this poetic fiction. In this argument, numerous creators compose Villon anew, including, for example, Édouard Glissant and his poems, other Black poets in the US, as well as writers in Enlightenment and modern-day Europe, in Japan around 1900, too. Such an understanding of Villon's poetry leads to a model of premodern fiction that encompasses the many instances it makes history.

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一个适时的维隆：时间与前现代诗歌小说

摘要：雅克·兰齐埃的诗歌“不合时宜”观念为探索前现代诗歌的诸多时代提供了一个重要的工具。通过暗示诗歌“逆时间而行”的方式，不合时宜有助于我们将其视为“联系模式”和“事件”，这些模式可以在诗歌最初创作时以外的时间出现。用Rancière的话来说，不合时宜的诗歌在时间上跳跃，并再次被激活，在各种新的地方吸引公众，谈论他们第一个时代之外的问题。我在这篇文章中的测试案例：《被绞死的人的歌谣》和《弗朗索瓦·维隆的遗嘱》。通过在日益增长的跨国背景下考察维伦诗歌的文学翻译，我认为这部诗歌小说具有不可预测的时效性。在这场争论中，许多创作者重新创作了《维伦》，包括爱德华·格里桑和他的诗歌，美国的其他黑人诗人，以及启蒙运动和现代欧洲的作家，也包括1900年左右在日本的作家。对维隆诗歌的这种理解导致了一种前现代小说的模式，它包含了它创造历史的许多实例。

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