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Author | : Loren Ringer |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Homosexuality in literature |
ISBN | : 9789042015869 |
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2002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this study, the author seeks to liberate Genet's fiction from the philosopher's stranglehold and reopen the work to new venues of interpretation. After challenging the accuracy and pertinence of Sartre's project and describing the problematic influence it has had, the author begins his own investigation of Genet by examining the notion of precarious identity which informs the Genetian text. Through a dense weft of textual maneuvers arises an aesthetically playful approach to sexual identity. From the beginnings of work in the field of sexology, homosexual desire has defied certain types of rigid schematization such as Freud's Oedipus complex. Indeed, it can be better viewed through the alternative interpretive lenses of Deleuze and Guattari who challenge patriarchal order in the study of sexuality. Such an approach eventually leads to a discovery of the body's centrality in Genet's fiction, especially in his last novel Querelle. It is precisely this ludic body that has escaped Sartre's critical eye and many subsequent studies of Genet's literature.
Author | : Loren Michael Ringer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Colby Dickinson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567170586 |
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This collection of essays redefines the concept of 'saintliness' as it is utilized and refashioned in contemporary French philosophy.
Author | : Annabel L. Kim |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1452965404 |
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Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter Cacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement’s vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Following the fecal through line in works by Céline, Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Duras, and Gary and the contemporary authors Anne Garréta and Daniel Pennac, Kim shows that shit, far from vanishing from the canon after the early modern period, remains present in the modern and contemporary French literature that follows. She argues that all the shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all. She attends to its presence in this prized element of French identity, treating it as a continually uttered desire to manifest the universality France aspires to—as encapsulated by the slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité—but fails to realize. In shit there is a concrete universalism that traverses bodies with disregard for embodied differences. Cacaphonies reminds us that literature, and the ideas to be found therein, cannot be separated from the corporeal envelopes that create and receive them. In so doing, it reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life.
Author | : Ian H. Magedera |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9401211434 |
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Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers’ struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects’ crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assign merit to productive lives well lived. The book’s approach illuminates both differences in those traditions from the mid-eighteenth, to the twenty-first century and a convergence between them, evident in the experimental-cum-fictional devices in recent English-language biography. Outsider Biographies advances wide-ranging new interpretations of the biographical writing on each of its seven subjects, but does so in a way that invites the reader picking up the book out of a passion for just one of those subjects, to follow the thread onto another and yet another.
Author | : Michael Sollars |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 957 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438108362 |
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Author | : Michael David Sollars |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 3388 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438140738 |
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Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."
Author | : Michael Lucey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022660635X |
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Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these “misfit” sexualities gravitate towards same-sex encounters. Yet they differ in subtle but crucial ways from mainstream gay or lesbian identities—whether because of a discordance between gender identity and sexuality, practices specific to a certain place and time, or the fleetingness or non-exclusivity of desire. Investigating works by Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Genet, and others, Lucey probes both the range of same-sex sexual forms in twentieth-century France and the innovative literary language authors have used to explore these evanescent forms. As a portrait of fragile sexualities that involve awkward and delicate maneuvers and modes of articulation, Someone reveals just how messy the ways in which we experience and perceive sexuality remain, even to ourselves.
Author | : David Andrew Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
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