BALDWIN, Thomas, James FOWLER et Shane WELLER [dir.], The Flesh in the Text, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang, 2007, 289 p.
ISBN 978-3-03911-102-2
RÉSUMÉ
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.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Thomas Baldwin/James Fowler/Shane Weller: Introduction
Rowan Tomlinson: The Limits of Textual Dissection: The Case of Quaresmeprenant in Rabelais's Le Quart Livre
Pierre Saint-Amand : Les Corps oisifs : Paresse des Lumières
Will McMorran: The Palimpsestic Heroine: Sade's Justine
James Fowler: 'Mettons un peu d'ordre à ces orgies': Bodies and Ideas in Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir
Thomas Baldwin: Proust's Eyes
Erika Fülöp: Becoming Body: Sleep and Writing in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Jon Kear: In the Net of Brute Sense: The Body in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
Shane Weller: The Politics of Body Language: The Beckett Embrace
Ana de Medeiros: Mutilation and Liberation: Filial Relationships in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia
Katie Jones: Literature as Consumption and Expulsion: Amélie Nothomb's 'esthétique du vomissement'
Jeremy Carrette: Foucault, Monks and Masturbation: The Ontology of Masculinity
Lucille Cairns: Dissidences charnelles: The Female Body in Revolt
Patrick French: Valdemar's Tongue: Voice, Flesh and Death
Nigel Saint: 'This Is My Body': The Words of the Eucharist in the Work of Louis Marin and Jean-Luc Nancy
Naomi Segal: Living the Body Metaphors: Is the Lost Object an Imaginary Friend, a Phantom Limb or a Second Skin?
BIOGRAHIE
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).