Peter Lang - European Academic Publishers announces a new book by Julia Prest / Hannah Thompson (eds.): Corporeal Practices. (Re)figuring the Body in French Studies.
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2000. 156 pp., num. ill.
Modern French Identities. Vol. 4
General Editor: Peter Collier
ISBN 3-906764-53-2 / US-ISBN 0-8204-4639-4 pb.
sFr. 44.- / DM 55.- / öS 367.- / US-$ 29.95 / £ 19.- / FF 176.- / BF 1100.-
"Corporeal Practices" brings together a collection of essays on 'the body' in French Studies. The thematic approach, typical of "la nouvelle critique", is well-represented as are psychoanalytic, genetic, feminist and queer readings, demonstrating how the subject of 'the body' can fruitfully serve a number of critical perspectives. Certain papers engage in a Derridean challenge to the traditional categories of 'literature', 'theory' and 'science' by showing that the body, by its very nature post-modern, denies attempts at classification and control. The book falls into three sections: Dissecting the Body, Sexing the Body and Inscribing the Body, spanning three centuries and involving such varied media as the cartoon, the novel, the poem, the portrait and the reference book, thereby providing a stimulating and innovative reference point for students and lecturers alike.
Contents: Julia Prest/Hannah Thompson: Introduction - Yvonne Bolton: On the Perception of the Body in Diderot's "Encyclopédie" - David McCallam: The Significance of Scars in some Writings of La Rochefoucauld Melissa Percival: 'Un Air de famille': Greuze's Heads and the Dissolution of the Genres - Sarah Fishwick: The Fashioned Body in Simone de Beauvoir's "L'Invitée" and "Le Sang des autres" - Ryan Song: Comparative Figures of Ageing in the Memoirs of Colette and Beauvoir: Corporeality, Infirmity, Identity - Libbie McQuillan: 'I live my body, I am my body': Claire Bretécher's Comic Bodies - Marion Schmid: The Disembodied Intertext: from Baudelaire's "Passante" to Proust's Albertine - Johanna Buisson: The Search for a Centre: the Mouth as a Crossroads between Body and Poetry in the Poetry of Henri Michaux - Sarah Cooper: Luce Irigaray: Reading and Writing the Body.
The Editors: Julia Prest studied French and Music at the University of Birmingham and wrote a PhD on Molière's "comédies-ballets" at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is currently Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford, where she is working on crossdressing in seventeenth-century French theatre.
Hannah Thompson is a Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. She studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Newnham College, Cambridge, before staying on at Newnham to write her doctoral dissertation on clothing in the novels of Emile Zola.
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