Intersections of Science, Sensation, and Culture

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Brian Massumi

Desire, Duplicity and Narratology: Boris Vian\u27s L \u27Ecume des jours

In this examination of Boris Vian\u27s L\u27Ecume des jours, I call into question the masculinist resistance to criticism of Vian and his works through a critical counter-resistance from a feminist narratological perspective. In order to examine the implications of narrative desire for understanding textual and sexual difference, I argue for a narratology that develops the concept of textual seduction as a question of narrative duplicity. I undertake this re-reading not merely from the perspective of an ideological unmasking, but also to suggest the possibility of a positive hermeneutic, or more precisely, the limits of such a move given inherent difficulties evident in Vian\u27s text. L\u27Ecume des jours provides the ground for reflections linking narratology to critical strategies that will enable me to pursue three lines of inquiry: first, how do the diegetic episodes depicting the parallel obsessions of the chief male protagonists, Colin and Chick, mask crucial questions of sexual difference in the story? Second, to what extent do the narrator\u27s means of engaging the reader serve to actualize or obscure questions of sexual difference and narrative duplicity? Third, how does the novel\u27s extensive recourse to dialogue contribute both to the occupation of the narrator\u27s role and to the apparent neutralization of sexual differentiation

Ethical Uplift, Not For Nuthin

The Sopranos by Dana Polan. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 232, 29 illustrations. $74.95 cloth,$21.95 paper.

Desire, Duplicity and Narratology: Boris Vian's L 'Ecume des jours

In this examination of Boris Vian's L'Ecume des jours , I call into question the masculinist resistance to criticism of Vian and his works through a critical counter-resistance from a feminist narratological perspective. In order to examine the implications of "narrative desire" for understanding textual and sexual difference, I argue for a narratology that develops the concept of textual "seduction" as a question of narrative duplicity. I undertake this "re-reading" not merely from the perspective of an "ideological unmasking," but also to suggest the possibility of a positive hermeneutic, or more precisely, the limits of such a move given inherent difficulties evident in Vian's text. L'Ecume des jours provides the ground for reflections linking narratology to critical strategies that will enable me to pursue three lines of inquiry: first, how do the diegetic episodes depicting the parallel obsessions of the chief male protagonists, Colin and Chick, mask crucial questions of sexual difference in the story? Second, to what extent do the narrator's means of engaging the reader serve to actualize or obscure questions of sexual difference and narrative duplicity? Third, how does the novel's extensive recourse to dialogue contribute both to the occupation of the narrator's role and to the apparent neutralization of sexual differentiation

The two-fold thought of Deleuze and Guattari. : Intersections and animations

New Yorkxxi, 361p.; 22 cm

Œuvre de sentiment, œuvre de combat

La Trilogie de Jacques Vingtras, entreprise pendant l'exil de Jules Vallès à Londres, sera son « œuvre de sentiment et de combat » où se lie l'engagement social acharné de l'insurgé à la conscience artistique croissante du romancier. Il s'agit ici de dégager les traits essentiels de cette rencontre heureuse en traçant le déploiement des oppositions thématiques vis-à-vis de l'agencement des figures principales, tant narratives que tropologiques, par lesquelles s'exprime ce cri de combat et de sentiment