Guilt and Shame -

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Résumé :
As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition - guilt and shame - permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy. This collection of essays, on French and francophone prose, poetry, drama, visual art, cinema and thought, assesses guilt and shame in relation to structures of social morality, language and self-expression, the thinking of trauma, and the ethics of forgiveness. The authors approach their subjects via close readings and comparative study, drawing on such thinkers as Adorno, Derrida, Jank?l?vitch and Irigaray. Through these they consider works ranging from the medieval Roman de la rose through to Gustave Moreau's Symbolist painting, Giacometti's sculpture, the films of Marina de Van and recent sub-Saharan African writing. The collection provides an ?tat-pr?sent of thinking on guilt and shame in French Studies, and is the first to assemble work on this topic ranging from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century. The book contains nine contributions in English and four in French....

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Contents: Jenny Chamarette/Jennifer Higgins: Introduction - Bill Burgwinkle: Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency: The Case of La Fille du Comte de Pontieu - Ir?ne Fabry : 'Si en i ot de teus qui i conterent plus lor honte que leur honour' : Enadain et Gauvain, les chevaliers transform?s en nains dans la Suite Vulgate du Merlin - Mary Flannery: The Shame of the Rose : A Paradox - Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde: Guilt's Reconfiguration of Time and Relational Ties in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre: A Study of Moli?re's Dom Juan , Rotrou's Cosro?s , Tristan L'Hermite's La Mariane and Racine's Ph?dre - Fr?d?ric Miquel : Quand le langage spirituel plaide coupable : linguistique et p?ch? au XVIIe si?cle - Natasha Grigorian: Guilt and Desire in the Dream World: Gustave Moreau and Jean Mor?as - Najate Zouggari : L'Impardonnable, l'imprescriptible et l'exigence ?thique de pardon - Eszter Horv?th : Psych? : le p?ch? originel - Ruth Kitchen: Guilt and Shame in Occupation Narrative: Reading the Open Secret and Cultural Amnesia in Blanchot's L'Instant de ma mort and Grimbert's Un secret - Timothy Mathews: Trauma, Witness, Form: Thinking Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti - Davina Quinlivan: 'Whispering on the threshold of the flesh': The Breathing Body, Silence and Embodied Shame in Marina de Van's Dans ma peau (2002) - Lucy Bolton: Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice - Charlotte Baker: 'For a minute, their sense of the ways of the world was ruptured. Just by looking': The Black African Albino in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine....

Sommaire:
Contents: Jenny Chamarette/Jennifer Higgins: Introduction - Bill Burgwinkle: Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency: The Case of La Fille du Comte de Pontieu- Ir?ne Fabry : 'Si en i ot de teus qui i conterent plus lor honte que leur honour' : Enadain et Gauvain, les chevaliers transform?s en nains dans la Suite Vulgatedu Merlin- Mary Flannery: The Shame of the Rose: A Paradox - Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde: Guilt's Reconfiguration of Time and Relational Ties in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre: A Study of Moli?re's Dom Juan, Rotrou's Cosro?s, Tristan L'Hermite's La Marianeand Racine's Ph?dre- Fr?d?ric Miquel : Quand le langage spirituel plaide coupable : linguistique et p?ch? au XVIIe si?cle - Natasha Grigorian: Guilt and Desire in the Dream World: Gustave Moreau and Jean Mor?as - Najate Zouggari : L'Impardonnable, l'imprescriptible et l'exigence ?thique de pardon - Eszter Horv?th : Psych? : le p?ch? originel - Ruth Kitchen: Guilt and Shame in Occupation Narrative: Reading the Open Secret and Cultural Amnesia in Blanchot's L'Instant de ma mortand Grimbert's Un secret- Timothy Mathews: Trauma, Witness, Form: Thinking Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti - Davina Quinlivan: 'Whispering on the threshold of the flesh': The Breathing Body, Silence and Embodied Shame in Marina de Van's Dans ma peau(2002) - Lucy Bolton: Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callaras an Irigarayan Alice - Charlotte Baker: 'For a minute, their sense of the ways of the world was ruptured. Just by looking': The Black African Albino in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine....