La manière est le poème même

Abstract

Manner is the poem itself. Manner, as a critical concept sitll valued by Diderot is eliminated during the 19 th century by a Hegelian metaphysics of aesthetics seeking an objectified subjectivity — and not signs of an individual subject, repeating itself. Yet, reconceptualised as the mark of the unknown, understood as what of poetic utterance has not yet become language but might, manner is dialectically what literature passes on of itself into collective reality.