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Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is...
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This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us. Yet the phenomenon itself, if indeed it is a single phenomenon, has received little attention. This volume seeks to remedy this oversight with a collection of concise, hard-hitting essays on a variety of topics in French culture. Organized around central approaches to the problem of threat - (inter)cultural, philosophical, and approac
Contents; Acknowledgements vii; GEORGINA EVANS AND ADAM KAY Introduction 1; Part 1: The Threat of the Other 7; MICHAEL HARRIGAN Méchant Chrétien ne sera jamais bon Turc 9; ROGER BAINES Ta mère suce des Schtroumpfs: The Relationship between Face Threat and Solidarity in the Ritual ta mère … Insult Used by French Adolescents 29; EMILY BUTTERWORTH Borrowed Soldiers, Borrowed Words: The Threat of the Foreign in Montaigne's 'De la phisionomie' 49; Part 2: The Subject on Film 67; LAURA MCMAHON Touching Intact: Sophie Calle's Threat to Privacy 69
ISABELLE MCNEILL Threat and the Moving Image: Histoire(s) du Cinéma in the Twenty-First Century 85JENNY CHAMARETTE Threatened Corpo-Realities: Decentring and Dissolving Subjectivities in Philippe Grandrieux's La Vie nouvelle 105; Part 3: Spaces and Invasions 123; GERALDINE MCILWAINE The Threat of the Urban Space in Three Novels by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 125; MICHAEL SEABROOK The Monster under the Bed: Threat to the Couple in the Early Works of Flaubert 141; ADAM KAYA Beautiful Evil: Erotic Invasion in Ronsard's Amours de Cassandre 155; Part 4: The Threatened Subject 175
JENNIFER BURRIS Quand on n'est plus qu'une ligne: The Threatened Subject in the Work of Henri Michaux 177JEFFREY KIRKWOOD AND DAVID LOGAN WRIGHT Between Being and Otherwise: Lacunae, Lévinas and the Threat of Totality 197; CHRISTOPHER WATKIN Paul Ricoeur and the Threatened Self 217; Contributors 233; Index 237;
