News CASS (fall, 2000), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1015/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (winter/summer, 2000), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1016/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (fall, 2001), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1017/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (winter/summer, 2001), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1018/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (fall, 2002), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1019/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (winter/summer, 2002), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1020/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (winter/summer, 2003), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1021/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (winter/summer, 2004), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1022/thumbnail.jpg

News CASS (fall, 2005), a newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. / https://dc.etsu.edu/news-cass/1023/thumbnail.jpg

À partir de l’inventaire des archives de Jean Tardieu, déposées à l’IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine), l’étude propose une analyse de la posture et de la poétique de l’auteur. Des premières expérimentations inédites de sa jeunesse à la somme de ses publications de prose, de poésie et de théâtre, on peut suivre au fil des archives l’invention et la définition d’une figure d’écrivain, dans l’histoire littéraire qu’il s’est choisie et dans la position qu’il s’est forgée dansle champ littéraire, tout comme on peut observer ses questionnements théoriques, ses constantes rhétoriques et les motifs obsédants de son imaginaire. Enfin, le détail des stratégies éditoriales de Jean Tardieu permet de comprendre tant ses choix esthétiques, dans le jeu inépuisable de la composition des recueils, que ses choix rétrospectifs au moment de la recomposition de son œuvre dans des rééditions successives, destinées à reconstituer un itinéraire. / Resting on a complete inventory of the Tardieu archives stored at the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (a research institute dedicated to the preservation of 20th century literary documents), this research attempts to chronicle how he shaped his poetic style and his creative persona. From his first unpublished experimental work to later collections of prose, poetry and theatre, his self-fashioned figure as a writer, in a tailor-made literary history and literary field, progressively emerges. Along the way his theoretical interrogations, his rhetorical habits, his recurring images come into view. Jean Tardieu’s editing choices are, in this respect, particularly significant: studying the evolution of his selection principles in the composition of his collections, when they were first published and in the successive editions, can help reveal his various aesthetic and biographic strategies.