Possessions

Lynsey Russell-Watts

ISBN 10: 303910005X / ISBN 13: 9783039100057

Edité par Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Apr 2003, 2003

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Possessions emerges from the fifth Cambridge French Graduate Conference, which took place in 2001. The theme has provoked a broad scope of investigation, covering French literature, film and theory, and ranging from the early medieval period to the present day. Despite the lack of attention which has so far been explicitly devoted to the idea of possession, it is shown to be an ever-present concern, and this volume seeks to fill this critical blind spot. The essays confront the central notion on several levels, tackling issues of authorship and ownership, postcolonialism, gender, and the potential trauma implicated in possession. The juxtaposition of different media, periods and critical schools allows common links to emerge, demonstrating ways in which possession acts as both problem and enabling notion. As a stimulating and original investigation into an under-explored area of critical thinking, the volume offers a critical examination of the possessing power of the text. 223 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Possessions
• Éditeur: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Apr 2003
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 303910005X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783039100057
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 220 L x 150 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 220 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 330 grammes

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Synopsis

Possessions emerges from the fifth Cambridge French Graduate Conference, which took place in 2001. The theme has provoked a broad scope of investigation, covering French literature, film and theory, and ranging from the early medieval period to the present day. Despite the lack of attention which has so far been explicitly devoted to the idea of possession, it is shown to be an ever-present concern, and this volume seeks to fill this critical blind spot. The essays confront the central notion on several levels, tackling issues of authorship and ownership, postcolonialism, gender, and the potential trauma implicated in possession. The juxtaposition of different media, periods and critical schools allows common links to emerge, demonstrating ways in which possession acts as both problem and enabling notion. As a stimulating and original investigation into an under-explored area of critical thinking, the volume offers a critical examination of the possessing power of the text.

À propos de l?auteur

The Editors : Julia Horn and Lynsey Russell-Watts are both completing Ph.D. theses in the French Department of the University of Cambridge. They work respectively on the sixteenth-century chivalric romance Amadis de Gaule and on psychoanalysis, cinema and photography.