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Possessions

Essays in French Literature, Cinema and Theory

by Julia Horn (Volume editor) Lynsey Russell-Watts (Volume editor)
©2003 Conference proceedings 230 Pages
Series: Modern French Identities, Volume 24

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
230
Publication Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039100057
Language
English
Keywords
Besessenheit (Motiv) women's studies Französisch Geschichte Cambridge (2001) French Literature Cinema Critical theory Motherhood Zola Abbé de Choisy Kongress Literatur
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003. 230 pp.

Biographical notes

Julia Horn (Volume editor) Lynsey Russell-Watts (Volume editor)

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.

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