Stains / Les taches

Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2019 | New edition
Peter Lang Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78707-443-9 (ISBN)

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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 disciplinary areas in French and Francophone literature and culture. The collection provides a theoretical framework for the significance of the stain in interpretation across a wide range of disciplines as well as offering close readings of films, photographs, paintings and literary texts in which the figure of the stain appears. In this respect, the following key notions are addressed and reconfigured: presence and absence, obscurity, visibility and legibility, form(lessness) and (non)representation, the (non)human and the animal, language and materiality, experience and knowledge, suffering and healing, remembering and forgetting. In parallel, the collection offers innovative readings of the work of key thinkers, examining how Barthes, Proust, Bataille, Camus and others engage with the topic of stains. This volume presents the stain as a powerful critical tool which complicates and contaminates historical, ethical, aesthetic and methodological boundaries. The essays celebrate the productive potential of the stain as an oblique means of accessing and uncovering significant and unexpected continuities and discontinuities.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Modern French Identities ; 129
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Jean Khalfa
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Witney
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-78707-443-9 / 1787074439
ISBN-13	978-1-78707-443-9 / 9781787074439
Zustand	Neuware