The Flesh in the Text
Thomas Baldwin (u. a.)
ISBN 10: 3039111027 ISBN 13: 9783039111022
Published by Peter Lang, 2007
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The Flesh in the Text | Thomas Baldwin (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007 | Peter Lang | EAN 9783039111022 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, 10178 Berlin, r[dot]boehm-korff[at]peterlang[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 130584250
Synopsis:
The impetus behind this collection of essays was a curiosity shared by the editors concerning the relation between the flesh and the text in French and francophone literature. This curiosity took the form of a number of specific questions. For which writers has the flesh been a central concern? Might one distinguish between those writers who attempt to represent the flesh textually and those who emphasise the difficulty or even the impossibility of such a project? How is the subject’s relation to his/her own flesh, and to the flesh of others, determined? In which ways do psychoanalysis and other influential theoretical approaches such as phenomenology and deconstruction address the flesh as distinct from the body? These questions are explored here in readings of works by, among others, Rabelais, Diderot, Sade, Proust, Beckett, Djebar, Nothomb, Delvig and Nobécourt. The principal philosophers and theorists upon whom the contributors draw include Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, Nancy and Anzieu.
About the Author:
The Editors: Thomas Baldwin is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005).
James Fowler is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent and is the author of Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot’s Narrative (2000).
Shane Weller is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2005) and Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006).
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Title: The Flesh in the Text
Publisher: Peter Lang
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu