59 research outputs found
Deadly Girls\u27 Voices, Suspense, and the Aesthetics of Fear in Joyce Carol Oates\u27s The Banshee and Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi
Abstract: this article focuses on deadly girlsâ voices in The Banshee and Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi, two short stories taken from Joyce Carol Oatesâs collection The Female of the Species, subtitled Tales of Mystery and Suspense. It shows that children are used as leading and focal characters not only to increase suspense but also to manipulate the readersâ traditional sets of ethical, semantic and literary references. Oates resorts to her favourite âaesthetics of fearâ for it is a powerful means of putting horror and abjection at a distance, and it is associated with the question of meaningâ meaning is what we fear most of losing, she says. Thus she involves her readers in complex interpretations of her hybrid talesâone drawing from the Gothic, the other from the grotesqueâand thereby leads them to a better understanding of themselves and their humanity
An Interview with Hollis Seamon
Hollis Seamon was invited to Bordeaux Montaigne University in April 2016 to give a lecture entitled âMask, Cape and Crown: Disguise and Dis-ease in Somebody Up There Hates Youâ (2013), her latest novel. A remarkable success on both sides of the Atlantic, this novel associates illness with youth and laughter
Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oatesâs A Widowâs Story
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oatesâs hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widowâs Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridismâgeneric, narrative and typographic in particularâas it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. This hybridism helps her not only express her emotional âderangementâ but also recover her identity as a writer. Thus her narrative manifests confusion and continuity, chaos and control, inconsolability and consolation at one and the same time
âCancer was an alchemistâ: Eve Enslerâs Experiences of Vulnerability in In the Body of the World
This article analyzes Eve Enslerâs experiences of vulnerability as they are related in her 2013 memoir, In the Body of the World. While the book illustrates âtraditionalâ or etymological vulnerability, resulting from trauma and cancer, it also exemplifies what American philosopher Erinn Gilson calls âepistemic vulnerability,â i.e. vulnerability not as weakness but as potential. As both illness and trauma narrative, Enslerâs memoir also offers an opportunity to question the dichotomy between disability and trauma studies
âI am a freak of natureâ: Touretteâs and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethemâs Motherless Brooklyn
Cet article propose une lecture de Motherless Brooklyn, publiĂ© par Jonathan Lethem en 1999, Ă la lumiĂšre de la thĂ©orie bakhtinienne du grotesque et du rire. LâoriginalitĂ© du roman tient Ă sa mise en fiction du syndrome de Gilles de la Tourette dont souffre le personnage principal, Ă©galement narrateur Ă la premiĂšre personne, qui sâapproprie dĂ©libĂ©rĂ©ment le surnom « phĂ©nomĂšne de cirque » dont il a Ă©tĂ© affublĂ© dans son enfance. Ainsi ce hĂ©ros-narrateur joue un double rĂŽle tout le long du rĂ©cit : il est Ă la fois le phĂ©nomĂšne grotesque quâon exhibe sur le stand de foire, et celui qui exhibe et construit le phĂ©nomĂšne en baratinant le public / lecteur. Lethem, de cette façon, remet en cause tant la reprĂ©sentation traditionnelle du handicap (et le stĂ©rĂ©otype du handicapĂ©) que les principaux genres dont sâinspire le roman : fiction policiĂšre et rĂ©cit de formation. Le texte se fait parodie, au sens bakhtinien du terme, Ă la fois hommage Ă ces genres traditionnels et rĂ©Ă©criture de ceux-ci. Lethem, enfin, utilise Ă la fois les tics et autres vocalisations symptomatiques du hĂ©ros et son penchant pour les images grotesques et le rire, afin dâopĂ©rer un changement paradigmatique et transformer le stigmate en atout. Le romancier contribue ainsi Ă renouveler significativement la fiction consacrĂ©e Ă la maladie.This article analyzes Jonathan Lethemâs neuronovel, Motherless Brooklyn (1999) in the light of Mikhail Bakhtinâs theory of the grotesque and laughter. The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Touretteâs syndrome and appropriating the nickname âfreak of natureâ he was given as a child. Thereby, he plays a double role: he is both âthe grotesque freakâ exhibited on the platform / page, and the freakshow talker constructing the freak from his condition. The novel turns into a freakshow, not in the sense of the sordid spectacle of the past, but as a construction questioning both the social and the literary order. Through the grotesque and laughter, Lethem challenges the traditional representation of disabilityâand the stereotype of the disabled personâand also the major genres his novel borrows from: detective fiction and the coming-of-age narrative. The book turns into parody, in the Bakhtinian sense, i.e., both a homage to and a rewriting of traditional genres. Lethem also takes advantage of his narratorâs symptomatic verbal outbursts and penchant for grotesque images and word play to shift disability paradigmâturning stigma into assetâand revitalize illness literature
Introduction to issue 3
This issue of Angles investigates new practices, in-between spaces, and research questions which do not immediately fall into clear-cut slots.Ce numéro de Angles se penche sur les nouvelles pratiques, les espace entre-deux, et les domaines de recherche qui ne rentrent dans aucune case pré-établie
An Interview with Hollis Seamon
Hollis Seamon was invited to Bordeaux Montaigne University in April 2016 to give a lecture entitled âMask, Cape and Crown: Disguise and Dis-ease in Somebody Up There Hates Youâ (2013), her latest novel. A remarkable success on both sides of the Atlantic, this novel associates illness with youth and laughter
Elisabeth Bouzonviller. F. S. Fitzgerald. Ecrivain du déséquilibre.
La collection « Voix amĂ©ricaines » vient de sâattaquer Ă lâun des piliers de la littĂ©rature amĂ©ricaine : Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Cerner le gĂ©ant fitzgeraldien en 128 pages nâest certes pas chose facile mais Elisabeth Bouzonviller relĂšve le dĂ©fi avec finesse et conviction. Pour ce faire, elle sâappuie sur les Ćuvres (les cinq romans et une quinzaine de nouvelles parmi les plus cĂ©lĂšbres) mais aussi sur les textes personnels de lâĂ©crivain (lettres, essais, carnets) quâelle cite abondamment, si..
Tammy Berberi on Disability studies
This interview of Tammy Berberi, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, discusses the advent and challenges of disability studies in the United States and in Europe.Cet entretien avec Tammy Berberi, Associate Professor Ă lâUniversitĂ© du Minnesota, aborde lâapparition et les dĂ©fis posĂ©s par les Ă©tudes sur le handicap aux Ătats-Unis et en Europe
Surface composition and structure of Co\u3csub\u3e3\u3c/sub\u3eO\u3csub\u3e4\u3c/sub\u3e(110) and the effect of impurity segregation
The Co3O4 (110) single crystal surface has been characterized by low energy electron diffraction (LEED), Auger electron spectroscopy, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). LEED analysis of the clean Co3O4 (110) spinel surface shows a well-ordered pattern with sharp diffraction features. The XPS spectra are consistent with stoichiometric Co3O4 as determined by the concentration ratio of oxygen to cobalt (CO /CCo) and spectral peak shape. In particular, the cobalt 2p XPS spectra are characteristic of the spinel structure with Co3+ occupying octahedral sites and Co2+ in tetrahedral sites within the lattice. During prolonged heating at 630 K, bulk impurities of K, Ca, Na, and Cu segregated to the surface. Sodium desorbed from the surface as NaOH at 825 K, potassium and calcium were only removed by sputtering since no desorption from the surface was detected for temperatures up to 1000 K. Copper also disappeared upon heating above 700 K, most likely by desorbing although the possibility of diffusion back into the bulk could not be eliminated. The appearance of copper impurities correlated with Co3O4 (110) surface reduction to CoO, and the surface could not be fully reoxidized even upon extended oxygen annealing as long as the copper impurity remained on the surface. Upon removal of the Cu from the near-surface region, the surface was easily reoxidized to Co3O4 by O2
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