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The beautiful and the monstrous : essays in French literature, thought and culture

Cambridge French Graduate Conference(2008 :King's College, Cambridge) (Author), Amaleena Damlé (Editor), Aurélie L'Hostis (Editor)
ISBN 9783039119004 · pbk., ISBN 3039119001 · pbk.
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Oxford [England]; New York : Peter Lang AG, 2010
vii, 218 p., 7 p. of plates
Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L'Hostis, eds
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Aesthetics, French--Congresses., Art, French--Philosophy--Congresses., French literature--History and criticism--Congresses., Philosophy, French--Congresses., France--Civilization--Congresses., Literatur., Schönheit., Das @Monströse., Das @Hässliche., Französisch., Cambridge <2008>, Geschichte

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Beauty and the place of the subject : reading Merleau-Ponty after Kant / · Kristy Guneratne --, The beauty of 'lame' sonnets / · Dominique Chaigne --, Beauty and monstrosity in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1824 / · Fiona Gatty --, A dance of angels and monsters : Victor Hugo's caducean aesthetics / · Cecilia A. Falgas-Ravry --, Une œuvre barbare et délicate : Hervé Guibert and the limits of representation / · Catherine Markey --, Uncanny Balbec : crypts, nightmares and phantoms in Les intermittences du cœur / · Anna Magdalena Elsner --, The flower and the monster : on Huysmans' painters / · Nicolas Valazza --, Surrealism and the sublime or the vertiginous plunging into the real / · Klem James --, Neither beast nor man : qu'est que c'est qu'un monstre? / · Martin Llewellyn --, The beastly and the courtly in medieval tales of transformation : Bisclaveret, Melion and Mélusine / · Miranda Griffin --, Diane as beauty : three seventeenth-century examples / · Ruth G. Vorstman --, The black maid and her mistress in Manet and Zola / · Jennifer Yee --, The monstrous female : images of abjection in Marie NDiaye's Hilda / · Elizabeth Lindley --, Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and 'race' in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour / · Andrew Asibong.

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Cambridge French Graduate Conference(2008 :King's College, Cambridge) (Author), Amaleena Damlé (Editor), Aurélie L'Hostis (Editor)
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ISBN 9783039119004 · pbk., ISBN 3039119001 · pbk.
Title resource
  • The beautiful and the monstrous : essays in French literature, thought and culture
  • Essays in French literature, thought and cultureTitle portion
  • French literature, thought and cultureTitle portion
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Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L'Hostis, eds
publication
Oxford [England]; New York : Peter Lang AG, 2010
Extent
vii, 218 p., 7 p. of plates
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  • "The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi].
dimensions
23 cm.
Physical details note
ill. (chiefly col.)
Illustrative content information
Illustrations, Plates
Classification
BH221.F8 (LCC Classification)
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Local identifier 100842854X
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12299228