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Journal Article
“We are born for lateness”: Byron and Cixous Writing the Present
2024
Overview
This essay brings together two diverse thinkers, Lord Byron and Hélène Cixous, to explore the ways in which they approach the essential unrecordability of the present moment in writing, and trace further correlations as to how their writing seeks to dismantle familiar constructs of continuity. It takes its cue from Byron’s conception of poetry as an intuitive process connecting the past and the future as a “feeling,” and explores the ways in which Byron highlights the problem of the present as essentially unrecordable. The unrecordability of the present moment in writing presents a highly Romantic aporia, whereby Byron flags the limits of language across his works. These concerns—a shared preoccupation with the limits of language, the recordability of the present, and the pace of living versus the pace of writing—have been explored further in theoretical detail by Cixous. Cixous considers life and writing alike as marked by essential, inescapable lateness, and she frequently tackles the issues of recording the immediacy of life in writing. Notwithstanding the temporal, gender and geopolitical gulf between them, Byron and Cixous, read in tandem, share a remarkable degree of intellectual resonance, both in terms of their preoccupation with conceptualizing the present moment in writing and in terms of the imagery employed to do so.
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Klincksieck,Éditions Klincksieck
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