In order to be clearer and offer a far better educational perspective, I will grant each of them a verbal determiner to sum it up, though I am well aware that it may not be sufficient enough to account for the complexity of tendencies taking place during each period. Figuring A new generation of poets seem to emerge around the sixties. It is a decade marked by the overwhelming influence of human sciences, by the development of structuralism, the primacy of the textual and of the political, of research and avant-gardes. The era of subversion follows the era of suspicion. It is the time of the Oulipo and of Tel Quel .
Attention turns away from landscape and focuses upon writing.
A polemical atmosphere of political and ideological upheaval characterizes this century that will find its acme in May 1968. Innovations and breakings up multiply therein. For the time being, what is at stake is epistemology. Reading Saussure, Jakobson, Althusser, Greimas and Lacan increases the crisis of poetry that had already been latent during the preceding decade. The work of language thus becomes the very object of poetry.