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200 14$aThe abject object $eavatars of the phallus in contemporary French theory, literature and film /$fKeith Reader
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, N.Y. $cRodopi$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (226 p.)
225 1 $aChiasma ;$v17
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a90-420-1729-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction -- Chapter One: The Lacanian phallus -- Chapter Two: Abjection -- Chapter Three: The abject phallus in fiction: Bataille and Adamov -- Chapter Four: Abject phalluses, abject penises: Serge Doubrovsky and Michel Houellebecq -- Chapter Five: Phallic narrative transvestism: Christiane Rochefort and Christine Angot -- Chapter Six: The abject phallus in cinema: Godard, Ferreri, Eustache, Noe?, Bonello -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
330   $aThis book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts - the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts - literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noe?, Bonello) - in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities - and the phallus that symbolizes them - can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies.
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606   $aFrench literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc
606   $aFrench literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aGender identity in literature
606   $aGender identity in motion pictures
606   $aMasculinity in literature
606   $aMasculinity in motion pictures
606   $aMotion pictures$zFrance$xHistory
606   $aPenis in literature
615  0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
615  0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aGender identity in literature.
615  0$aGender identity in motion pictures.
615  0$aMasculinity in literature.
615  0$aMasculinity in motion pictures.
615  0$aMotion pictures$xHistory.
615  0$aPenis in literature.
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