Stains/Les taches : communication and contamination in French and Francophone literature and culture /
This volume explores and challenges the extensive possible meanings and semantic connotations of the stain, including dirt, blood, dye, clue, symptom, shadow, smudge, memory, crack, trace and blindspot. The roles, functions, workings and unworkings of stains are interrogated across a range of discip...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Includes articles in both English and French. |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2019]
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| Series: | Modern Frenc identities ;
129. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: COMMUNICATION 1. Shakespeare s'est trompé
- Pierre Bayard. 2. Punctuation as the mark of experience, or how Barthesian photography has a point
- Nicolas Estournel. 3. "L'image absolue": Autobiography and Photography in Marguerite Duras' L'Amant -Elizabeth Woodward. 4. The Cinematic Rorschach: Deciphering Signs and Stains with Michaux and Brakhage
- Jules O'Dwyer. 5. Lacunes : Pour une étude conjointe des formes noires dans les calotypes (1840-1860) et dans la poésie mallarméenne (fin XIXe s.)
- Nina Ferrer-Gleize. 6. Violent Erasures: Atrocity, Photographic Archives and the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62)
- Katarzyna Falęcka. Part Two: CONTAMINATION 1. Franju's animals: stains, traces, histories
- Laura McMahon 2. The Pure Experience of Impurity: Georges Bataille, a Stain in the History of French Thought- Marie Chabbert 3. The Aporias of Matter: Bataille's Subjective Stain and/at the origin of Žižek's Materialism
- Kevin Kennedy 4. Pristine Filth: Non-philosophy staining the stain
- David Bremner 5. La représentation de l'abject chez Proust, Bataille et Quignard
- Rodolphe Gauthier 6. Taches de La Peste : domination et insoumission chez Camus
- Lina Patricia Villate Torres 7. Les taches du passé : du souvenir traumatique à la guérison de l'âme
- Sara Jeffar
- Conclusion.