Poétique de la voix romantique : du timbre à l’outre-sens

Abstract

From Coleridge and Keats to Beckett, this paper explores the concept of « resonant listening » developed by Jean-Luc Nancy.  From Geraldine’s voice haunting Christabel to the voice of the Nightingale, the voice is staged in scenes of listening  where the poetic subject encounters  a sense of presence  beyond signification and intentionality. In the world of Beckett, on the other hand, logorrhea is the sign that the body is no longer an echo chamber of sonorous  plenitude and that voice no longer resonates beyond language and beyond meaning.