Guilt and Shame; Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture (Paperback)

Contents: Jenny Chamarette/Jennifer Higgins: Introduction ? Bill Burgwinkle: Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency: The Case of La Fille du Comte de Pontieu ? Irene Fabry : ‘Si en i ot de teus qui i conterent plus lor honte que leur honour’ : Enadain et Gauvain, les chevaliers transformes en nains dans la Suite Vulgate du Merlin ? Mary Flannery: The Shame of the Rose: A Paradox ? Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde: Guilt’s Reconfiguration of Time and Relational Ties in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre: A Study of Moliere’s Dom Juan, Rotrou’s Cosroes, Tristan L’Hermite’s La Mariane and Racine’s Phedre ? Frederic Miquel : Quand le langage spirituel plaide coupable : linguistique et peche au XVIIe siecle ? Natasha Grigorian: Guilt and Desire in the Dream World: Gustave Moreau and Jean Moreas ? Najate Zouggari : L’Impardonnable, l’imprescriptible et l’exigence ethique de pardon ? Eszter Horvath : Psyche : le peche originel ? Ruth Kitchen: Guilt and Shame in Occupation Narrative: Reading the Open Secret and Cultural Amnesia in Blanchot’s L’Instant de ma mort and Grimbert’s Un secret ? Timothy Mathews: Trauma, Witness, Form: Thinking Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti ? Davina Quinlivan: ‘Whispering on the threshold of the flesh’: The Breathing Body, Silence and Embodied Shame in Marina de Van’s Dans ma peau (2002) ? Lucy Bolton: Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice ? Charlotte Baker: ‘For a minute, their sense of the ways of the world was ruptured. Just by looking’: The Black African Albino in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine.