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Writing Otherwise - Atlan, Duras, Giraudon, Redonnet, And Wittig

by Jeanette Gaudet

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 Essentially a comparative and contrastive analysis, Writing Otherwise examines the prose of five French women authors: Liliane Atlan, Marguerite Duras, Liliane Giraudon, Marie Redonnet, and Monique Wittig. Through close readings of texts published after 1985, this book explores the broad concerns and preoccupations infusing the ontological enterprise that is ecriture. While maintaining a sensitivity to the diversity of styles and themes, as well as the unique qualities of the poetic voice evident in the five texts under consideration, this study seeks to highlight, in very general terms, what is common to them. The intertextual ground that informs the works, the construction of subjectivity, and the ambivalence and tension inherent to the practice writing constitute significant and important areas of convergence. These features form the ground of each chapter, while specific areas of divergence complete the discussion of individual aesthetics. Inspired by feminist literary theory, Writing Otherwise is also concerned with how these five women writers negotiate their relationship to writing.
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Eau Sur Eau - Les Dictionnaires De Mallarme, Flaubert, Bataille, Michaux, Leiris Et Ponge

by Christophe Lamiot

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 Qu'est-ce qui seduit le poete a rediger un dictionnaire-en-poeme? Que trouve-t-il interessant son oeuvre dans le voisinage d'une pratique lexicographique? Comment la poesie en forme de dictionnaire commente-t-elle celui-ci? Que nous apprend-t-elle de la poesie? Pour la premiere fois dans le panorama de la critique contemporaine, Eau sur eau interroge, non le rapproche-ment de deux activites qui ont pu se croiser, mais leur etrange-ment indemelable superposition, voire indistinction; poesie et lexicographie : eau sur eau.A partir d'un triple positionnement des oeuvres, de Mallarme a Ponge, vis-a-vis des questions impossibles que pose tout dictionnaire-en-poeme, Christophe Lamiot travaille a affiner la notion d'un imaginaire lexical que confirmerait le hors-dictionnaire des oeuvres. Qui parle en lexicographie? Quelles relations les mots entretiennent-ils les uns avec les autres? Quelles relations, avec ce qui les depasse aussi, peut-etre? Proposition d'instruments critiques nouveaux, Eau sur eau offre de meme, et souvent avec humour, un voyage inedit dans les univers secrets de Mallarme, Flaubert, Bataille, Michaux, Leiris et Ponge, tels que la poesie lexicographique les evoque. Dis-moi comment tu definis, et je te dirai que tu es, qui tu ecris...
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Contemporary French Women Poets, Volume I - Fom Chedid And Dohollau To Tellermann And Bancquart

by Michael Bishop

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 Contemporary French Women Poets offers the first full-length study, divided into two volumes, of a wide range of women's poetry in France written over the past forty years. Volume I provides a broad Introduction, eight chapters devoted to individual critical assessments of the work of Andree Chedid, Heather Dohollau, Denise Le Dantec, Janine Mitaud, Jacqueline Risset, Anne Teyssieras, Esther Tellermann and Marie-Claire Bancquart, followed by a provisional Conclusion and Bibliography. Volume II recentres the overall analysis via a brief Introduction, then proceeds to offer eight more individual critical evaluations of the work of Jeanne Hyvard, Jeannine Baude, Francoise Han, Celine Zins, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Denise Borias, Marie Etienne and Anne-Marie Albiach. An overall Conclusion is then developed, followed by a Bibliography.
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Uncanonical Women - Feminine Voice In French Poetry (1830-1871)

by Wendy Greenberg

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 In English here is presented for the first time an examination of the text and context of five nineteenth-century French women poets: Elisa Mercoeur (1808-1835), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859), Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), Louise Ackermann (1813-1890) and Louise Michel (1830-1905) will demonstrate that in spite of mentoring by various literary, historic or even family figures, these writers found their own voices. A striking example is Louisa Siefert, who in spite of bold intertextuality, displays an unmistakably feminine persona, whose originality poignantly draws the reader's attention. These poets had many obstacles of overcome as woman-identified poets. For example, Louise Ackermann's own husband did not want her to write, and for this reason, she remained silent during her who years of marriage. Louise Michel is a different case as an analysis of the short poem Bouche close (Le Livre du Bagne, 1873-1880) will demonstrate. In short, Uncanonical Women, explores a crescendo of poetic voice, from the initial timid solicitations of Elisa Mercoeur, to the bold, self-sufficient defiance of Louise Michel. The implication of my original findings that uncanonical poets can surpass cultural marginalization is that the book will target both a traditional and modern readership. Major these and clear language and tools that delineate identifiably personal style of true writers and the poetic persona of each is unique: Mercoeur in ambition, Desbordes-Valmore in domesticity, Siefert, in anguish, Ackermann in pessimism and Michel in leadership.
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Ethics Of Reading According To Emmanuel Levinas

by Roland A. Champagne

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 Reading a text is an ethical activity for Emmanuel Levinas. His moral philosophy considers written texts to be natural places to discover relations of responsibility in Western philosophical systems which are marked by extreme violence and totalizing hatred. While ethics is understood to mean a relationship with the other and reading is the appropriation of the other to the self, readings according to Levinas naturally entail relationships with the other. Levinas's own writings are often frought with the struggle between his own maleness, the concerns of feminism, and the Judaism that marks his contributions to the debates of the Talmud. This book uses male feminism as its perspective in presenting the applications of Levinas's ethical vision to texts whose readings have presented moral dilemmas for women readers. Levinas's philosophical theories can provide keys to unlock the difficulties of these texts whose readings will provide models of reading as ethical acts beginning with the ethical contract in Song of Songs where the assumption of a woman writer begins the elaboration of issues that sets a male reader as her other. From the reader's vantage point of seeing the self as other, other issues of male feminism become increasingly poignant, ranging from the solicitude of listening to Celine (Chapter 2), the responsibility for noise in Nizan (Chapter 3), the asymmetrical pattern of face-to-face relationships in Maupassant (Chapter 4), the sovereignty of laughter in Bataille and Zola (Chapter 5), the call of the other in Italo Svevo (Chapter 6), the Woman as Other in Breton (Chapter 7), the ethical self in Drieu la Rochelle (Chapter 8), the response to Hannah Arendt (Chapter 9), and the vulnerability of Bernard-Henri Levy (Chapter 10). The male feminist reader is thus the incarnation of the struggle at the core of the issues outlined by Levinas for the act of reading as an ethical endeavor.
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Copresences, Entrecroisements - Le Pictural Et Le Narratif Chez Marie-Claire Blais Et Sergio Kokis

by Kirsty Bell

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 Copresences, entrecroisements propose une etude de differentes interactions entre la litterature et la peinture dans des romans de deux auteurs quebecois importants, Marie-Claire Blais et Sergio Kokis. Les romans de Blais et Kokis font preuve d'une grande saturation du pictural et permettent ainsi une exploration de plusieurs types de rapports texte-image: que se passe-t-il lorsque l'image accompagne, complete et prolonge le texte litteraire? Comment aborder l'ekphrasis, l'illustration, l'illustration paratextuelle et l'auto-illustration? Quels effets de sens sont produits par ces copresences et entrecroisements? Les modes d'inscription du visuel dans le narratif jettent une lumiere nouvelle sur les romans de Blais et Kokis et elucident divers concepts fondamentaux que partagent texte et image, tels le portrait, l'autoportrait, la perception, le miroir, le masque, la contrefacon, la creation et la deformation. Les recits s'ouvrent ainsi aux sensibilites picturales.
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Dystopie Et Poiein, Agnose Et Reconnaissance - Seize Etudes Sur La Poesie Francaise Et Francophone Contemporaine

by Michael Bishop

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 Rene Depestre, Claude Esteban, Esther Tellermann, Bernard Noel, Gaston Puel, Ananda Devi, Gerard Titus-Carmel, Jean-Paul Michel, Heather Dohollau, Pierre Dhainaut, Christian Hubin, Beatrice Bonhomme, Hermenegilde Chiasson, Bernard Vargaftig, Eugene Guillevic, Yves Bonnefoy: seize grandes voix poetiques de nos jours, francaises et francophones, seize poet(h)iques distinctives, seize manieres puisant dans le stock des options formelles infinies afin d'installer leurs fourmillantes specificites locutoires, seize etudes, tantot embrassant la totalite d'une uvre, tantot centrees sur un seul recueil emblematique, permettant toutes de penetrer dans des mondes hautement individualises, des visions a la fois coherentes et constamment complexifiees et paradoxales du poetique et de tout ce qui, fatalement, en excede les signes.
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Paris And The Fetish - Primal Crime Scenes

by Alistair Charles Rolls

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 Freud's 1927 essay on the acquisition of a screen memory, or fetish, allows the subject to come to terms with the traumatic truth that, for him, dominates the present moment (in Freud's scenario, the truth of mother's sexuality) by maintaining, alongside and not in place of it, a parallel story of the past (the myth of the phallic mother). In this book Freud's theory of the fetish, and in particular this way of allowing two opposed and ostensibly mutually exclusive narratives to co-exist, is used to provide a number of Parisian crime texts with radical new solutions. The fetishistic world-view of Charles Baudelaire's poetics will be shown to provide the template for all overvalued instances of women passing by; notably, it will be seen how the famous assault on one of Christian Dior's models as she displayed the New Look for the first time in Montmartre in 1947 depends on a fetish erected in the poem "A une passante". The same Paris streets allow red herrings to be raised to the status of truth in novels by Fred Vargas, Leo Malet and Frederic Cathala. In these texts the discovery of a primal scene allows doubt to be cast over authorial solutions and new murderers or victims to be found. In the case of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausee, the fetishism at work is shown to have harboured a serial killer where no crime was previously considered to have taken place. In these analyses, fetishism is mapped onto prose poetics, intertextuality and deconstruction in order to challenge the way we read text. More importantly, rereading these texts allows us to see fetishism in a new light as a force for positive, creative acts of meaning-making.
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Ananda Devi - Feminism, Narration And Polyphony

by Rita Tyagi

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 Ananda Devi: Feminism, Narration and Polyphony is the first full-length monograph devoted to Ananda Devi, a dynamic contemporary Francophone writer. Recipient of Prix Louis-Guilloux and Prix Television Suisse Romande du Roman, she is described by many as a prototype of a new generation of Mauritian writers. This book analyses Devi's unconventional polyphonic narratives, particularly, her strategies that allow marginalized narrators to disrupt androcentric and dominant structures of narrative construction, thereby creating hybrid magical spaces for feminine expression. Drawing on the notion of feminist narratology that investigates the relation between gender and narrative, this book focuses on a wide range of Western and non-Western narrative strategies such as plot and plotlessness, narrative metalepsis, pluritemporality, multisubjectivity, myths, folktales and magic. It also demonstrates how her texts become the point of convergence of the West and the non-West, the feminine and the androcentric, the real and the extra-real as muted discourses resurface and traditional distinctions between categories are blurred in favor of alternate and new possibilities. As this book is interdisciplinary in its approach, it will appeal to a broad range of audience from those interested in Contemporary Francophone and Indian-Ocean Literature to scholars in Women's Writing, Post-Colonial Studies, and Narratology.
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Andre Du Bouchet - Poesie, Langue, Evenement

by Victor Martinez

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 L' uvre du poete francais Andre du Bouchet (Paris, 1924 - Truinas, 2001) constitue un apport inedit pour les recherches en linguistique et poetique contemporaine. L'attention au dehors qui caracterise une telle poesie ne debouche pas sur une poesie descriptive, objective ou referentielle, mais sur l'idee que le rapport a la realite est invisible et global. Les hermeneutiques phenomenologiques, rationnelles ou critiques (de Ric ur a Meschonnic ou Bollack) ne sont pas parvenues a decrire une uvre qui placerait le sens non dans la langue, mais a cote d'elle. L' uvre d'Andre du Bouchet, fondee non sur une poetique de la presence, mais de sa rupture, non sur une poetique du lieu, mais de son emportement, non sur une poetique du sens, mais de sa dissolution, parviendrait au resultat paradoxal de replacer la realite au c ur du langage, y compris dans ses manifestations les plus violentes. Eminemment historique, cette poesie fonderait le langage comme evenement, mais cet evenement ne serait pas assignable en tant que fait positif: il serait un phenomene global a la fois sans signe, paradoxalement observable et ouvertement efficient.L' uvre d'Andre du Bouchet resitue des questions initialement poetiques au centre de ce qui constitue le projet global des sciences humaines: decrire, fonder, interpreter.
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Temoignages Fictionnels Au Feminin - Une Reecriture Des Blancs De La Guerre Civile Algerienne

by Nevine El Nossery

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 Face a un reel qui avait atteint une violence innommable et par defaut de consensus historique, les romancieres algeriennes, fatalement ebranlees par la recrudescence de la violence en Algerie avec la montee de l'integrisme islamiste des annees 1990, se sont armees de leur plume pour combattre cet obscurantisme impetueux. Tout en reconnaissant la difficulte de dire l'horreur, l'ecriture romanesque fonctionne comme un detour, le seul souvent possible pour apprehender l'inimaginable et representer l'irrepresentable et, surtout, en rendre compte pour ceux qui ne savent pas ou refusent tout simplement de le croire. Temoignages fictionnels au feminin analyse les rapports existant entre le factuel et le fictionnel, entre temoigner et raconter, dans une conjoncture ou de telles frontieres semblent floues. A travers l'etude des temoignages fictionnels d'Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, Leila Marouane et Latifa Ben Mansour, ce livre tente de repondre a cette question si epineuse: jusqu'a quel degre la litterature est-elle capable de transcender sa propre litterarite a travers un mode d'expression figurative qui represente le reel meme? En d'autres termes, comment la volonte de dire la verite peut-elle s'allier a l'envie de faire de la fiction, sans que la question ethique compromette l'intention esthetique? Bref, comment ecrire une fiction du reel?
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Une Intention De Salut - Essais Sur La Poesie Francaise Moderne

by John T. Naughton

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 Comment participer a ce que la vie a de divin - si on ne croit plus en Dieu ? Comment lui donner une signification, si on la sent privee du fondement ontologique qui autrefois lui garantissait sa coherence? Que deviennent enfin l'esperance, et surtout la charite, dans un monde ou la foi ne semble plus praticable ? Voici les questions que ce livre propose d'aborder, en etudiant cinq reponses apportees par la poesie moderne a la crise metaphysique qu'elle se voit contrainte d'affronter. Celle de Baudelaire, dont le rapport a la tradition chretienne est reste profondement ambigu. Celle de Rimbaud, dont le projet poetique a remis en cause cette tradition au nom d'une reinvention de l'amour et d'une reintegration de l'etre. Celle de Claudel, seul a avoir vecu la foi sans equivoque, mais au prix d'un refus peremptoire de bien des aspects de la pensee moderne. Celles, pour finir, de Louis-Rene des Forets et d'Yves Bonnefoy, conscients l'un et l'autre de venir apres les dieux , ce dernier pourtant voulant identifier poesie et espoir, et affirmant avec insistance que l'acte vraiment moderne est de vouloir fonder une vie 'divine' sans Dieu .
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Pleasures Of Crime - Reading Modern French Crime Fiction

by David Platten

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 For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre feeding a niche market, depicting crime fiction instead as a field of creative endeavour, which has gradually matured into one of considerable literary fertility. By inviting us to share secrets and crack codes, creating suspense and (at times) not shirking from presenting horrific events in graphic language, the crime story brings into play the intellect and emotions of its readership. This book explores both this intrinsic literary value of the crime novel and its extrinsic witness to historical events and cultural trends, arguing that these apparently distinct aspects are in fact dynamic, interrelated parts of the same whole. This blend of cultural history with literary analysis allows for the discussion of themes such as politics, memory, the urban environment and youth cultures, mixed with case studies of major French crime writers, including Gaston Leroux, Georges Simenon, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Daniel Pennac and Fred Vargas.
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Marcel Proust Et L'Imaginaire

by Maarten Van Buuren

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 A la recherche du temps perdu repose sur une theorie de l'imaginaire qui se rapproche de celle des phenomenologues: Husserl, Fink, Sartre. Mais tandis que ceux-ci partent a la recherche de l'essence des choses (eidos) et restent dupes d'une vision essentialiste, Proust developpe une theorie anti-essentialiste. Pour lui, l'imaginaire n'est pas l'instrument qui revele l'essence inalterable des choses (Wesensschau), mais sert de mediation entre le monde exterieur et le monde interieur. Proust ne cesse d'affirmer que l'imaginaire est un interface ou prennent consistance les etre aimes, les souvenirs lointains et l'oeuvre artistique dans une continuelle metamorphose qui plie le monde exterieur au jeu de nos desirs. Relisons donc A la recherche du temps perdu a la lumiere de ce concept qui est indispensable pour comprendre Proust et comprendre nous-memes.
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Maurice Blanchot Et L'Art Au Xxeme Siecle - Une Esthetique Du Desoeuvrement

by Emmanuelle Ravel

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 Maurice Blanchot est certainement l'un des plus eminents penseurs et ecrivains du vingtieme siecle, dont le retrait et la discretion ont laisse la marque meme de son effacement comme evenement de l'experience litteraire. C'est par une demarche de dialogue avec les artistes qui ont faconne le siecle de la modernite que nous confrontons ses ecrits a des uvres dont le leitmotiv est la perte, l'absence, l'infigurable. Pour dire si l'avant-gardisme est une notion qui fait echo dans le deploiement singulier de son espace litteraire, ce livre se propose de sonder les questions essentielles de l'auteur de L'Ecriture du desastre, et invite a poser la question du passage de la phenomenologie a l'esthetique.
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At The Periphery Of The Center - Sexuality And Literary Genre In The Works Of Marguerite Yourcenar And Julien Green

by Thomas J.D. Armbrecht

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 At the Periphery of the Center is the first comparison of two of France's most important twentieth-century authors, Julien Green and Marguerite Yourcenar. It examines textual elements in their plays and novels to draw conclusions about the ways that they represent homosexuality in their texts. Both Yourcenar and Green turned to drama to explore aspects of same-sex desire that they felt unable to express in their prose. The analysis of their plays shows that an emphasis on dialogue and action makes drama a particularly appropriate genre for writing about homosexuality because it affords an author distance and therefore protection from the "proclivities" of his characters. The chapters on the novel show, by contrast, how prose fiction allows an author to explain a character's sexuality with a degree of subtlety difficult to achieve in theatre. Variations in narration and paratext allow writers to avoid condemning discourses and to find an original means of expression instead. At the Periphery brings a new, textually centered approach to Green's and Yourcenar's works that is unlike the psychological analyses that often typify queer readings. It will be of great interest to scholars of twentieth-century French literature and of Gender Studies. The book will also appeal to non-academic readers, however, since it is about two French authors who were also American citizens and who wrote about US history and contemporary culture.
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Endless Theory Of Days - The Art And Poetry Of Gerard Titus-Carmel

by Michael Bishop

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 Seeks to set forth the case for the special, multiple genius of a man who, despite the experience of a biting melancholy resulting from loss, has never lost sight of a curious duty to the shadows that haunt and that, with now a strangeness that smiles, yet beckon toward 'the very place, finally clarified and recognised, of pure evidence.
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Marie Dorval: France'S Theatrical Wonder - A Book For Actors

by Bettina L. Knapp

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 To trace the life of Marie Dorval through the turbulences and exhilarations of her epoch is to engage not just with the genesis and the full flowering of a rare theatrical genius but also with the teeming literary, emotional, economic and material dramas in which such a genius is implacably embroiled. Dumas, Vigny, Hugo, Sand, Gautier and many others mingle their creative and affective energies with Dorval's in a ceaseless dynamic interplay. But to read Bettina Knapp's exceptional story is to realize too the so easily overlooked backcloth to life in Marie Dorval's times: poverty, the need to will one's survival, unimaginably trying circumstances in which theatre is performed, whether in the provinces or in Paris. And the account that follows further seeks, upon this at once intimate and societal canvas, to give us some real insight into the uniqueness of Dorval's acting techniques, simultaneously instinctive, viscerally natural, and learned, studied, though more from life than instruction. A book for actors, indeed; but a book, too, for lovers of the theatre and, beyond that, of the sheer improbable drama of existence.
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Poesie Du Lieu - Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge

by Steven Winspur

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 On considere d'habitude l'exotisme de Victor Segalen comme une des tentatives les plus poussees de fonder l'ecriture sur la decouverte d'un autre monde, de meme qu'on loue Walden d'Henry David Thoreau pour son evocation d'une vie simple et ideale qui serait a la portee de tout un chacun, a condition d'echapper aux regles et contraintes de toute communaute. D'un autre cote les poemes descriptifs d'un Guillevic ou d'un Ponge semblent etre ancres definitivement dans une zone circonscrite de la vie quotidienne. Neanmoins, en examinant de pres les ecrits de ces auteurs on trouvera que l'opposition evidente de l'ailleurs a l'ici doit etre reformulee et que la quete apparente d'un ailleurs chez les deux premiers aussi bien que son contraire chez les seconds - l'eloge d'une realite bien connue - ne sont que les deux faces d'un seul et meme projet: la tentative de recreer par le truchement de la poesie une nouvelle appreciation des lieux de la terre. Un lieu fait irruption chaque fois qu'un corps humain rencontre des corps environnants et il suscite chez le temoin d'une telle rencontre un sentiment extraordinaire de l'espace. Lire les quatre auteurs c'est apprendre a reconnaitre ce sentiment, tout en appreciant l'espacement de sons, de lettres et d'appels que leurs textes nous proposent.
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Dialogues Avec Jeanne Hyvrard

by Cathy Wardle e Helen Vassallo

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 L'activite litteraire de Jeanne Hyvrard ne reste plus a presenter : de Les prunes de Cythere, Mere la mort, Les doigts du figuier jusqu'a Canal de la Toussaint, La pensee corps, Cellla, Le fichu ecarlate et bien au-dela, la voix de Jeanne Hyvrard, emouvante et ferme, terriblement ancree et radieusement visionnaire, est parvenue a fonder, sans conteste, une des grandes uvres de notre temps. Les dialogues que presente ce livre interrogent avec une chaleureuse intelligence le cheminement de la pensee qui sous-tend l'aventure ontologique exceptionnelle de cette uvre et cherchent a penetrer dans les secrets et les clartes de ses parfois deroutantes mais toujours exaltantes beautes.
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Abject Object - Avatars Of The Phallus In Contemporary French Theory, Literature And Film

by Keith Reader

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 This book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts - the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts - literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noe, Bonello) - in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities - and the phallus that symbolizes them - can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies.
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Method In Madness - Control Mechanisms In The French Fantastic

by Jutta Fortin

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 Method in Madness looks at the ways in which nineteenth-century French literature of the fantastic reflected what psychoanalysis would later define as mechanisms of defence. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a particular mechanism - fetishization, projection, intellectualization, mechanization, and compulsion - and to a representative set of texts which illustrate and embody the process concerned. The book thus systematizes what has remained up to now a rather vague perception of the psychological processes at work in fantastic narrative and of the relationship between the fantastic and the emerging science of psychoanalysis. Although centred on French works, including texts by Gautier, Merimee, Balzac, George Sand, Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the study necessarily deals with the German tradition of the fantastic, notably Hoffmann and Freud. It argues that mechanisms of defence not only take place in fantastic literature, but that the fantastic itself in fact consists in translating defence into the real, thus making clear to the reader the very processes by which defence occurs. The book finds that the defence mechanisms "fail" in the fantastic, because in this literature defence involves adding a real danger to a merely psychic one, thereby intensifying the anxiety and displeasure which the mechanisms of defence are ideally designed to minimize.
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L'Enigme-Poesie - Entretiens Avec 21 Poetes Francaises

by John C. Stout

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 L'Enigme-poesie presente une serie d'entretiens avec vingt-et-une poetes francaises contemporaines. Une grande diversite de voix et d'approches face a l'objet poeme se fait entendre dans ces discussions exceptionnelles. A travers un dialogue en profondeur, chaque poete cherche a definir et a explorer sa conception et sa pratique de la poesie. Les ecrivaines reconnaissent toutes l'influence des ancetres poetiques, surtout celle des poetes de la modernite francaise et europeenne. Ces entretiens fournissent une excellente introduction a la poesie francaise contemporaine, ce volume s'adressant a la fois aux universitaires et a un plus large public qui essaie de s'orienter face a la production poetique actuelle. Les echanges servent aussi de guide permettant aux lecteurs et aux lectrices de decouvrir des oeuvres et des pratiques individuelles richement impressionnantes qui meritent d'etre infiniment mieux connues. La question du feminisme revient, certes, souvent dans ces entretiens mais la plupart des poetes interviewees expriment une certaine ambivalence a l'egard d'etiquettes parfois trop contraignantes.
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Mystery Play In Madame Bovary: Moeurs De Province

by Peter Rogers

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 Drawing upon Flaubert's fictional works, travel writings, correspondence, and notes on his reading of the Bible and interest in iconography, Rogers traces the presence of a liturgical drama, a mystery play, in a text known as iconic of the realist novel. Showing how Flaubert's use of religious tales, topoi, and imagery extends beyond his retelling of saints' lives in the Tentation de Saint Antoine and the Trois contes, this study elucidates the biblical and devotional subcurrent in the story of Emma Bovary. Biblical episodes, religious emblems, and discussions of Catholic dogma link the adulterous heroine to the Virgin Mary, who emerges in the course of this subtle reading as the other heroine of the scandalous story.The 19th-century impulse to censor is embodied within the novel by two characters representing the secular and religious poles. The free-thinking pharmacist Homais and the parish priest concur only on the dangers of reading the Bible. When the novel itself was brought to trial for attacking religion, Flaubert's prosecutor and defense lawyer overlooked this condemnation of scripture. This study invites readers to pay close attention to the religious texts and traditions discussed and restaged in Madame Bovary to gain a new awareness of the narrow bond between theatre and religion in Flaubert's provinces.
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