Download or read book Camp written by Fabio Cleto and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to c& an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies
Download or read book Ebc written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston’s introduction to the volume — a concise and informative history of queer theory — the fifteen articles reveal, not surprisingly, significant diversity. One deals with queerness in the context of medieval writing where allegorical and euphemistic expression were understood to be irreconcilable. Another treats translations in Early Modern France of an Ovidian fable that had an inconvenient lesbian dimension. Rousseau’s fixation on his bottom (e.g., for spankings) points to a queer streak, while Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin enhances the theme of sexual misidentity with ornamental figures. The queerness of Sand’s La Mare au diable emerges in the course of a contrasexual reading. A musicologist investigates the possibility of a lesbian esthetics of music in a work by Erik Satie, while a literary scholar finds evidence of Proust’s “outing” in Jean Santeuil. Other articles address the sense of gender transformation wrought by sodomy, a revised view on the writing subject in Jean Genet’s fiction, the queerness of heterosexuality in the works of Michel Houellebecq, and recurring motifs in recent fiction produced by “gay Paris.” Two of the articles treat activism and esthetics in film.
Download or read book Jorge Semprun written by Ursula Tidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprun (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts. His sophisticated literary testimonies have become landmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience of history. In this first detailed study in English of Jorge Semprun's writing, Ursula Tidd shows how Semprun explores the parameters of self-writing as an address to the other in a richly intertextual corpus which weaves together history, fiction and auto/bio/thanatography, and gives voice to the traumatic experiences of geographical and political exile and concentration camp internment. Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK."
Download or read book Artful Deceptions written by Catherine Emerson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from a conference organized at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in April 2004.
Download or read book The Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of the Sense of Beauty written by Felix Clay and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Step Is the Foot written by Anthony Howell and published by Grey Suit Editions. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry into the relationship between the “step” in dance and the “foot” in verse invites the reader into a tapestry woven by its crossed paths. A duel career as a dancer and as a poet allows the author to follow his interest in the dance origins of scansion and link it to how the foot connects lyric writing to an “exiled sense” through the felt tread of its rhythm. This is to rediscover the physical feeling of poetry; the fulcrum of a relationship that goes back to the Greek chorus, when every phrase was danced. The author shows how verse and the dance emerged together, as we initially developed bipedalism and speech. Written is a discursive style which allows the author to wander whenever digression seems appropriate, the book offers the reader an entertaining compendium of anecdotes, notions and quotes concerning the relation between our words and our movements. Walking in itself may have ushered in predication —syntax—putting one word in front of another as one put one foot in front of another. Did song emerge separately from language and stimulate ritual dance among women who linked their steps to sounds? The link of speech with movement is explored in ancient art, in theatre and in military drill and psychoanalysis. From the ballet to performance art, the author traces the evolution of recent creativity—free verse finding a parallel in Mick Jagger dancing freely on his own in the ‘60s while performance artists used the freedom of conceptual art to explore “action phrases” linking task-orientated movement with verbal articulation.
Download or read book Au fil de mes r ves written by Louis Bloch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society written by Andrea Duranti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 14, 1986, Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris. She was the “prettiest Existentialist”, who during her long and intense life had observed, described, analytically deconstructed and effectively changed the world that surrounded her, “one word at a time”. An engaged intellectual like her life partner and comrade Jean-Paul Sartre, she took actively part in most of the main social and political struggles of the 20th century, including, first and foremost, women’s emancipation and self-determination, as well as the decolonisation of French Algeria, and the denouncement of American imperialism in Vietnam and the marginalisation of elderly people in contemporary societies. This collection of essays, arising from the 18th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society held in Cagliari, Italy, in June 2010, provides a major contribution to the field of Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research provided by scholars from a variety of disciplines that range from French literature to gender studies, from philosophy to social sciences, offering a multifaceted overview on the “state of the art” of research on the life and the works of Simone de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.
Download or read book Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul written by Sander L. Gilman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sander Gilman's undisputed mastery in explaining and analyzing human stereotypes receives a new and fascinating dimension through the role which aesthetic surgery plays in connecting ideas of physical change and human happiness."--George L. Mosse, author of "The Image of Man" and "The Crisis of German Ideology"" "
Download or read book Concentrationary Art written by Griselda Pollock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol’s key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.
Download or read book Queens and Revolutionaries written by Pascale Gaitet and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of Genet that focus on the two areas that Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's empasis on a range of binary oppositions fails to do justice to the complex interplay of agency and determinism in Genet's novels of the 1940s. Using contemporary feminist and gender theory to elucidate the fluctuations, oscillations, and reversals in Genet's representations of cross-dressing and homosexuality, the readings show how these representations in turn reveal those theories limitations. The second half of the book turns to lesser known work dating from the late 1960s onward, and to 'Prisoner of Love', in order to contest Sartre's insistence on the non-political nature of Genet's work. It examines Genet's texts on the Black Panthers and the Palestinians, highlighting his political engagement after May 1968. It also traces the continuities from his earlier work, and shows how revolutionary aesthetics, theatricality, and performance are now increasingly reconceptualised as explicitly political acts.
Download or read book Actes Du 6e Congr s International D esth tique written by Rudolf Zeitler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actes Du Sixi me Congr s International D esth tique Uppsala 1968 written by Rudolf Zeitler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Esth tiques de la nouveaut la renaissance written by François Laroque and published by Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À la Renaissance, les inventions techniques comme la boussole, les lunettes ou l'imprimerie, mais aussi les cabinets de curiosité, les monstres, les merveilles ou les grotesques fascinent les esprits. Les amateurs de surprise et de nouveauté se recrutent aussi bien parmi les souverains et leur cour que parmi les lettrés, les humanistes, ou dans le peuple épris de fêtes et de spectacles. Les récits de voyages, les jardins, les réalisations architecturales qui se multiplient alors donnent l'impression d'un foisonnement de choses inédites, voire insolites, où l'innovation, mais aussi l'exagération, ont leur part. Avec Shakespeare, Ben Jonson et bien d'autres, la scène élisabéthaine va s'efforcer de répondre à ce goût grandissant pour la nouveauté, dont elle donne parfois une image grinçante et satirique. Au XXe siècle, après la remise en cause du drame bourgeois par Antonin Artaud qui redécouvre en France le théâtre élisabéthain, les mises en scène audacieuses de Patrice Chéreau (Hamlet) ou de Peter Sellars (Le Marchand de Venise) font apparaître la nouveauté de ces textes. Les différents parcours proposés dans ce recueil sont à lire comme autant d'invitations à voir ailleurs ou autrement, à s'ouvrir à ce qui apparaît bien comme autant d'expériences et d'esthétiques de la nouveauté. Ce terme parfois décrié à la Renaissance prend donc ici tout son sens et ouvre clairement la voie vers la modernité.
