Can one consider hatred to be beautiful? The title of the book does not seek to justify such an ugly passion, but rather to explore the most extreme hatred, the type of pure hatred that …
Month: October 2016
Le Sublime et le Grotesque
The aim of Le Sublime et le grotesque is to pinpoint those moments in literary and artistic history when grotesque horror turns into sublime terror, when sublime rapture is spurred by grotesque grimaces. Such investigation spans …
The Judas Effect: Betrayal in Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless"
Le vivant, l’informe et le dégoût: Baudelaire, Flaubert et l’art de la (dé)composition
Baudelaire and Flaubert were both attracted to the question of the shapeless and the aesthetic challenges it raises. In more ways than one, the poem “Une charogne”, as well as the misadventures of Bouvard and …
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between …
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment
What did the past sound like, taste like, smell like? How did it look and feel? How did people make sense of the world through their senses? These are questions which are increasingly capturing the …
Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era
Maps and Territories: Navigation, Globalization, and Belonging in Contemporary French Fiction
Through close readings of novels by Olivier Rolin, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Chloé Delaume, Lydie Salvayre, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Virginie Despentes, Philippe Vasset, and Jean Rolin, this book seeks to answer the following questions: How do …
Women, Art, and Revolution in the Streets of Egypt
The Father's America
This collection of poems, written by Ernesto Livorni while he was a PhD student in the 1980s, was recently translated into English by Jason Laine.