Stains / Les taches; Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Category

Literary studies: from c 1900

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Wordery

Brand

International academic publish

Stains / Les taches; Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture : Peter Lang : 9781787074439 : 1787074439 : 05 Jul 2019 : "This volume explores and challenges the extensive possible meanings and semantic connotations of the stain, including dirt, blood, dye, clue, symptom, shadow, smudge, memory, crack, trace and blindspot. The roles, functions, workings and unworkings of stains are interrogated across a range of disciplinary areas in French and Francophone literature and culture. The collection provides a theoretical framework for the significance of the stain in interpretation across a wide range of disciplines as well asoffering close readings of films, photographs, paintings and literary texts in which the figure of the stain appears. In this respect, the following key notions are addressed and reconfigured: presence and absence, obscurity, visibility and legibility, form(lessness) and (non)representation, the (non)human and the animal, languag

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