Haunting Presences

Ghosts in French Literature and Culture

By: Kate Griffiths (Editor), David Evans (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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This book responds to the current critical interest in phantoms and haunting. It explores and assesses the twentieth century's fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, photography, literature and theory. However, the ghosts of works present cannot be understood fully without considering the ghosts of works past. Each of the twentieth-century works analyzed considers itself haunted by the past, by memory, be it personal or textual. Consequently, this volume also considers this past and these textual memories by exploring specific ghosts in successive ages (Medieval, Renaissance, Early-Modern and the nineteenth century) and genres key to these epochs (poetry, drama and the novel).Thus, this collection offers an insight into the ghost's past, its evolution across time and genre, before turning to focus on how art in twentieth-century France deals with its textual memories and the ghosts of its past. A substantial introduction explains and pulls together the themes and analytical structure of this volume to provide unity and cohesion among the various chapters.

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Non-Fiction Mind, Body, Spirit Unexplained Phenomena & the Paranormal Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction History Regional & National History European History

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Textual Spectres and Spectral Texts	p. 1
Ghosts, Hearsay and Lies: the Strange Case(s) of Lord Lyttelton	p. 14
Ghostly Antecedents
Haunting Text and Image: Having it Out with Misogynistic Authorities in the Late Medieval querelle des femmes	p. 29
Jodelle and Garnier: Ghost Prologues from Seneca to the Renaissance	p. 43
Racine's Spectral Stagecraft: Andromaque	p. 60
Les Misérables: the Shadowlands of Epic	p. 75
Modern Ghosts
Spectral Texts, Spectral Images: L'Usage de la photo as Haunted Text	p. 91
Sans soleil and the Ghost of the Image	p. 106
Spectres of Substance: Fran&ccidle;ois Ozon and the Aesthetics of Embodied Haunting	p. 116
'Reiterature', or the Haunting of Style in the Portrait de Jacques Derrida by Hélène Cixous	p. 130
Shadowy Figures of Oneself: Robert Pinget's Passacaille	p. 139
Haunting Canons: Ethics of Mourning in Vie secrète by Pascal Quignard	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 175
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