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Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments Of Nazism In Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Sylvie Vanbaelen
Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments Of Nazism In Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Sylvie Vanbaelen
Sylvie Vanbaelen
Since his death in 1962, and particularly in the last twenty-five years, Georges Bataille has become a major figure in intellectual circles. Critics such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, to name but a few, have all contributed to bringing Bataille's work to the foreground. Regarded as a significant influence on contemporary thought, Bataille is considered a precursor of post-modernism. Yet, while he has received increasing attention, this attention has converged primarily on his essays and philosophical works. As Susann Cockal notes, "specific and detailed readings of many aspects of [his] fiction are still …
Les Pas Perdus: Images Of Feet And Shoes In Surrealist Art, Emily Patricia Asplund
Les Pas Perdus: Images Of Feet And Shoes In Surrealist Art, Emily Patricia Asplund
Theses and Dissertations
Although feet and shoes appear throughout surrealist visual art, their significance within surrealist theory has not been studied as thoroughly as other familiar themes of surrealist art, such as the eye or the hat. The purpose of this project is to recover feet and shoes from their lowly position and to uncover their meaning and function in surrealist theory, particularly the theory of Georges Bataille. Feet were implicitly important to surrealists like André Breton and Louis Aragon, whose early and central literary texts were based on their favorite pastime: flânerie or wandering the streets of Paris. Images of feet can …
Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments Of Nazism In Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Sylvie Vanbaelen
Writing Dirty: Paradoxical Embodiments Of Nazism In Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Sylvie Vanbaelen
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Since his death in 1962, and particularly in the last twenty-five years, Georges Bataille has become a major figure in intellectual circles. Critics such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, to name but a few, have all contributed to bringing Bataille's work to the foreground. Regarded as a significant influence on contemporary thought, Bataille is considered a precursor of post-modernism. Yet, while he has received increasing attention, this attention has converged primarily on his essays and philosophical works. As Susann Cockal notes, "specific and detailed readings of many aspects of [his] fiction are still …
Bataille's "The Solar Anus" Or The Parody Of Parodies , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
Bataille's "The Solar Anus" Or The Parody Of Parodies , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Bataille uses parody in "The Solar Anus" to attack the concepts underpinning Cartesian, Hegelian, Romantic and Surrealist discourses. Each one of these discourses lays claim to an impossible achievement: that of arriving at a "total identification," whereby the subject attempts to embrace a "transcendent whole." Bataille uses his parodic cosmogony in "The Solar Anus" to subvert these discourses, showing them to be incapable of exhausting the subject of their study. On another level as well, Bataille's "Solar Anus" challenges any attempt at parody. Within the context of his global parody, each target of parody is itself parodic of another target, …
The Maze Of Taste: On Bataille, Derrida, And Kant, Arkady Plotnitsky
The Maze Of Taste: On Bataille, Derrida, And Kant, Arkady Plotnitsky
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The case of Kant's Critique of Judgment offers a powerful example of the radical disruption of the metaphysical text, enacted by Bataille's major сoncepts. The analysis of the metaphor of economy in Kant, Bataille and Derrida suggests the crucial importance of Bataille's general economy—as the economy of loss—for deconstructing the Kantian conception of genius and the whole scheme of taste—as an economy of consumption—and inscribing a complex interplay forces that the general economy is designed to account for. Once however taste, art and the economy of genius can no longer be inscribed through the restricted economy …