The Flesh in the Text, Thomas BALDWIN, James FOWLER et Shane WELLER (dir.)

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).