This text offers an interpretation of the writings of Georges Bataille who, over the past 30 years has had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others.
In writing Le Livre de Promethea Helene Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of infinity. The result is a stunning example of Pecriture feminine that won kudos when published in ...
Modern readers tend to dismiss Nostradamus as a leftover from superstitious ages or as an inspired visionary. In this discussion, Georges Dumezil, scholar of myth and religion, takes Nostradamus very seriously indeed. Can one foresee the future, Dumezil asks, and fail to understand it? At the beginning of the 19th century, commentators on ...
The seven-year-old daughter of the governor of a penal colony in French Guiana becomes friendly with the rough convicts who serve as domestics for her family, and learns things her vehemently Christian parents don't teach her.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this French novel is about four women who meet at an academic conference who, as they become friends, ponder the plight of women in general, and their own plights in particular.
Catherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas -- Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and Magic Flute -- through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener.
After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches - no diploma required - Victor finds himself on The Will of God, a dilapidated boat heading into the heart of darkness as even Conrad couldn't have imagined. With the piquant mixture of ...
In this study, Bernard Cerquiglini looks at the relation between philosophical studies and their texts, with special attention to texts from the Middle Ages. He finds that the scientific reconstruction of texts is not only a recent historical phenomenon, but also an anachronism that loses exactly what it seeks: a way of confronting a text in its ...
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