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Guilt and Shame

Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture

by Jenny Chamarette (Volume editor) Jenny Higgins (Volume editor)
©2010 Conference proceedings VIII, 230 Pages
Series: Modern French Identities, Volume 79

Summary

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, Jankélévitch 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 état-présent 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.

Details

Pages
VIII, 230
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9783035300918
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039115631
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0091-8
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (May)
Keywords
Contrition Social morality Ethics Forgiveness
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010. VIII, 230 pp.

Biographical notes

Jenny Chamarette (Volume editor) Jenny Higgins (Volume editor)

The Editors: Jenny Chamarette is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in French at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She specialises in French and European cinema and time-based media, film and art theory, and twentieth-century French thought. Jennifer Higgins is a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French poetry, and particularly English responses to this poetry via translation.

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