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The beautiful and the monstrous

essays in French literature, thought and culture

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Peter Lang AG
Language
English
Pages
218

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Table of Contents

Beauty and the place of the subject : reading Merleau-Ponty after Kant -- Kristy Guneratne
The beauty of 'lame' sonnets -- Dominique Chaigne
Beauty and monstrosity in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1824 -- Fiona Gatty
A dance of angels and monsters : Victor Hugo's caducean aesthetics -- Cecilia A. Falgas-Ravry
Une œuvre barbare et délicate : Hervé Guibert and the limits of representation -- Catherine Markey
Uncanny Balbec : crypts, nightmares and phantoms in Les intermittences du cœur -- Anna Magdalena Elsner
The flower and the monster : on Huysmans' painters -- Nicolas Valazza
Surrealism and the sublime or the vertiginous plunging into the real -- Klem James
Neither beast nor man : qu'est que c'est qu'un monstre? -- Martin Llewellyn
The beastly and the courtly in medieval tales of transformation : Bisclaveret, Melion and Mélusine -- Miranda Griffin
Diane as beauty : three seventeenth-century examples -- Ruth G. Vorstman
The black maid and her mistress in Manet and Zola -- Jennifer Yee
The monstrous female : images of abjection in Marie NDiaye's Hilda -- Elizabeth Lindley
Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and 'race' in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour -- Andrew Asibong.

Edition Notes

"The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford [England], New York
Series
Modern French identities -- v. 87, Modern French identities -- v. 87.
Other Titles
Essays in French literature, thought and culture, French literature, thought and culture

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Library of Congress
BH221.F8 C36 2010, BH221.F8

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Pagination
vii, 218 p., 7 p. of plates :
Number of pages
218

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Open Library
OL25108658M
ISBN 10
3039119001
ISBN 13
9783039119004
LCCN
2010932546
OCLC/WorldCat
657597754
Deutsche National Bibliothek
100842854X

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