Francis Ponge and the Nature of Things: From Ancient Atomism to a Modern Poetics. By PATRICK MEADOWS. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 172 pp. 28 [pounds sterling].
Arguing that Ponge criticism has been dominated by two opposite postulates ('the law of the thing' vs 'the law of the word' (p. 19), Patrick Meadows seeks their 'mutual resolution' in a study of analogy. He is doubtless right that such a resolution is 'embedded in the ...