Shifting Borders -

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Résumé :
This volume, containing selected papers from a conference held by the Department of French in the University of Cambridge in 1999, addresses the exciting and challenging figure of the shifting border in modern French literature and literary theory. Using a variety of critical approaches, the contributors map the fluctuating borders in specific literary texts and explore how these moving boundaries reflect on their practice of literary analysis. Inspired by the ideas of European and American thinkers, including Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, they consider three major areas of current concern: the construction of identity, the conceptualisation of literary genres and the demarcation of geographical and cultural domains. Applying their insights to a wide-ranging corpus of francophone texts, this volume analyses the work both of canonical figures such as Mallarm?, Proust and Zola and of lesser-known writers such as Aim? C?saire, Assia Djebar and St. John Perse.

Biographie:
The Editors: Emily Butterworth is completing a Ph.D. in early seventeenth-century French literature at Girton College, Cambridge.
Kathryn Robson is completing a Ph.D. in contemporary French women's writing at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Sommaire:
Contents: Emily Butterworth/Kathryn Robson: Theorising the Shifting Border - Patrick ffrench: Passage barr?: Port Bou, 26th September 1940 - Kevin Inston: A Lesson in Language: Benjamin Constant's Autobiography - Ingrid Wassenaar: Overspill: Proust and Indiff?rence - Hannah Thompson: Zola's Perverse Nature: Aesthetics and Metaphor in the Rougon-Macquart Novels - Elizabeth McCombie: Patterns of the Intermediary: Mobile Boundaries in Mallarm?'s Un coup de D?s and Debussy's Jeux - Marie Caffari: Butor's Writings on Art: Expanding Textual Borders - Marie Cabaud: Why Antigone was right after all: Simone Weil's Mystical Hermeneutics - Andrea Lesic-Thomas: The East and West of European Structuralism - Jean Khalfa: Bords irr?m?diables: Vanishing Lines in Caribbean Poetry in French - Victoria Best: The Architecture of the Erotic: Figures of Resistance and Incorporation in Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg.