POETRY AND THE LANGUAGE OF OTHERNESS: BAUDELAIRE, MALLARME, PONGE

The language of otherness is a discursive framework that applies to modern poetry in the way it responds to the disappearance of stable forms of legitimization. This study focuses on the writings of three poets, Baudelaire, Mallarme ' and Ponge, all of whom have approached in a vexed manner the task of poetic innovation because they were all preoccupied to some degree by the question of authentication. It analyses selected writings of the poets by highlighting the affective polarities that emerge in their works, particularly through the intellectual trials to which they subject themselves, but also in their assessment of their place in a literary tradition that, as modern poets, they seek to overturn. The analysis is based on Lacan's notion of the big Other as the site of authorization but also of the misestimation of desire inasmuch as it conveyed in language.