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The beautiful and the monstrous : essays in French literature, thought and culture
Title
The beautiful and the monstrous : essays in French literature, thought and culture / Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L'Hostis, eds.
ISBN
3039119001 (pbk.)
9783039119004 (pbk.)
Published
Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang AG, c2010.
Physical Description
vii, 218 p., 7 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Notes
"The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi].
Variant and related titles
Essays in French literature, thought and culture
French literature, thought and culture
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2010
Series
Modern French identities, v. 87
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Beauty and the place of the subject : reading Merleau-Ponty after Kant / Kristy Guneratne
The beauty of 'lame' sonnets / Dominique Chaigne
Beauty and monstrosity in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1824 / Fiona Gatty
A dance of angels and monsters : Victor Hugo's caducean aesthetics / Cecilia A. Falgas-Ravry
Une œuvre barbare et délicate : Hervé Guibert and the limits of representation / Catherine Markey
Uncanny Balbec : crypts, nightmares and phantoms in Les intermittences du cœur / Anna Magdalena Elsner
The flower and the monster : on Huysmans' painters / Nicolas Valazza
Surrealism and the sublime or the vertiginous plunging into the real / Klem James
Neither beast nor man : qu'est que c'est qu'un monstre? / Martin Llewellyn
The beastly and the courtly in medieval tales of transformation : Bisclaveret, Melion and Mélusine / Miranda Griffin
Diane as beauty : three seventeenth-century examples / Ruth G. Vorstman
The black maid and her mistress in Manet and Zola / Jennifer Yee
The monstrous female : images of abjection in Marie NDiaye's Hilda / Elizabeth Lindley
Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and 'race' in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour / Andrew Asibong.
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