Quand Marie Darrieussecq parle de race : réception et posture de l’écrivain blanc

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
ÉTIENNE ACHILLE
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Interracial Relations ◽  
Marie Darrieussecq

This article reflects upon the remarkable reception of Marie Darrieussecq’s novel Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes in the autumn of 2013. In the first instance, it questions the response of literary critics—surprisingly unanimous in spite of the novel’s treatment of interracial relations and colonial heritage—as well as the author’s posturing until she was awarded the prestigious Médicis prize. While French literary studies continue to be governed by ethnoracial criteria applied to minority authors (“francophone” writers, “beur” or “banlieue” literature, etc.), this article seeks to demonstrate that, during this period marked by extensively reported racist incidents, a certain image of the white writer emerged from the novel’s critical reception as well as Darrieussecq’s own public interventions.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Moran
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Psychotic Episode ◽  
Identity Narratives

The introduction provides an overview of White’s significance to literary studies and the ways in which her illness and identity narratives have shaped her critical reception. It outlines and historicises the medical, psychoanalytic and religious contexts within which White’s experiences of illness unfolded. It also provides an overview of White scholarship and shows how the failure to address the role of illness in White’s life and work characterises that scholarship. It shows how scholars have often interpreted symptoms of illness—including White’s protracted psychotic episode—as signs of incest trauma.

Essaying Affects

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Hagen
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Literature Reading ◽  
Reparative Reading ◽  
Life Model

This chapter intervenes in the critical reception of Lawrence’s literary studies, works that scholarship tends to mine for their insights into Lawrence’s metaphysics or psychology rather than insights into the critical study of literature. Reading his criticism as criticism, the author argues that Lawrence’s study of Thomas Hardy, his survey of American literature, and his return to the Book of Revelation near the end of his life model practices of reparative reading avant la lettre. Lawrence believes that novels can teach readers to live and feel. He mobilizes this belief into a method that identifies moments of tension or intensity in literary texts and models how readers can inhabit these tensions and intensities, trying them out, essaying literary affects as means to their own ends. Moreover, Lawrence’s literary studies attend to a range of needs: his own, his readers’, and those of the books he effortfully repairs.

On the critical reception of religious literary criticism

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Светлана Владимировна Бурмистрова
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Definition Of

В статье представлена попытка проанализировать современную критическую рецепцию религиозного подхода («богословско-догматического», «конфессионального (православного) подхода») к изучению русской словесности. Автор рассматривает вопрос о генезисе термина «религиозное литературоведение», его связи с дефиницией «религиозная философия», а также вопрос о его функционировании в современной гуманитарной науке. Выявляется преемственность религиозной филологии с философской и литературоведческой традицией рубежа XIX-XX веков. Обозначена методологическая неоднородность «религиозной филологии», в которой сосуществуют два самостоятельных подхода: «богословско-догматический» и собственно филологический подход. Рассматривается дискуссия о специфике предметного поля религиозного литературоведения и особенностях интерпретационной модели, позволяющей объективно проанализировать отечественную словесность в православном аспекте. К наиболее значимым тенденциям современной религиозной филологии можно отнести следующие: анализ литературного материала в междисциплинарном ключе, в том числе с использованием методов библейской герменевтики; смещение акцента с вопроса о степени религиозности того или иного автора на проблему функционирования религиозных кодов в художественной системе, их трансформация как на индивидуально-авторском, так и на общекультурном уровне. Анализ критических суждений о «религиозном литературоведении» представлен в формате «pro et contra» (С. Бочарова, М. Дунаева, И. Есаулова и др.). This article attempts to analyze the modern critical reception of the religious approach ("theological and dogmatic", "confessional (Orthodox) approach") to the study of Russian literature. Author considers the genesis of the term "religious literature", its relationship to the definition of "religious philosophy", as well as the question of its functioning in the modern humanitarian science. The author reveals the continuity of religious philology with philosophical and literary tradition of the late XIX-XX centuries. The author indicates the methodological heterogeneity of "religious philology", where two independent approaches coexist: theologico-dogmatic and philological ones. The author considers the debate about the specificity of the subject area of the religious literary studies and peculiarities of the interpretational model, which allows to analyze the Russian literature objectively from the Orthodox point of view. Among the most significant trends of modern religious philology are the following: analysis of literary material in an interdisciplinary way, including the use of biblical hermeneutics methods; shifting the emphasis from the question of the degree of religiosity of the author to the problem of functioning of religious codes in the artistic system, their transformation both at individual author and at general cultural level. The analysis of critical judgments on "religious literary studies" is presented in the "pro et contra" format (S. Bocharova, M. Dunayev, I. Esaulova and others).

"Transformations and transmutations. Notes on the critical reception of Romanticism in Bulgaria (mid1940s - early 1970s)"

Lyuboslovie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 175-196
Author(s):  
Svetla Cherpokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Ideological Attitudes

The text focuses on the critical reception of Romanticism in Bulgaria (mid-40s – early 70s of the twentieth century). Histories of literature and literary studies are discussed, which are seen as a source for the mental and ideological attitudes of the time in which they were created. Two concepts are applied – transformation and transmutation, which are a tool for studying the course of ideological attitudes of the Bulgarian critical reception of European romanticism.

Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanjo Berressem
Keyword(s):  
Projective Plane ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Real Projective Plane ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
The Real

Providing a comprehensive reading of Deleuzian philosophy, Gilles Deleuze’s Luminous Philosophy argues that this philosophy’s most consistent conceptual spine and figure of thought is its inherent luminism. When Deleuze notes in Cinema 1 that ‘the plane of immanence is entirely made up of light’, he ties this philosophical luminism directly to the notion of the complementarity of the photon in its aspects of both particle and wave. Engaging, in chronological order, the whole body and range of Deleuze’s and Deleuze and Guattari’s writing, the book traces the ‘line of light’ that runs through Deleuze’s work, and it considers the implications of Deleuze’s luminism for the fields of literary studies, historical studies, the visual arts and cinema studies. It contours Deleuze’s luminism both against recent studies that promote a ‘dark Deleuze’ and against the prevalent view that Deleuzian philosophy is a philosophy of difference. Instead, it argues, it is a philosophy of the complementarity of difference and diversity, considered as two reciprocally determining fields that are, in Deleuze’s view, formally distinct but ontologically one. The book, which is the companion volume toFélix Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Ecology, argues that the ‘real projective plane’ is the ‘surface of thought’ of Deleuze’s philosophical luminism.

‘What we are up against’: Lindsay Anderson and The Old Crowd

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 332-350
Author(s):  
Tom Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
Production History

Drawing on the invaluable experience of watching Lindsay Anderson at work and on lengthy interviews with the director, this article traces the production history and critical reception of The Old Crowd, an Alan Bennett play which Anderson directed for London Weekend Television in 1979. In so doing it paints a picture of an ITV environment very different from that of today, one in which there was far more scope for formal experimentation and innovation, but it also demonstrates all too clearly the critical hostility and incomprehension which greeted directors like Anderson who were determined to take advantage of this relatively liberal climate in order to stretch the medium to its limits.

Walter Pater: Personality and Persons

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-250
Author(s):  
Stephen Cheeke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
The Self ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge Of Persons

This article argues for the centrality of notions of personality and persons in the work of Walter Pater and asks how this fits in with his critical reception. Pater's writing is grounded in ideas of personality and persons, of personification, of personal gods and personalised history, of contending voices, and of the possibility of an interior conversation with the logos. Artworks move us as personalities do in life; the principle epistemological analogy is with the knowledge of persons – indeed, ideas are only grasped through the form they take in the individuals in whom they are manifested. The conscience is outwardly embodied in other persons, but also experienced as a conversation with a person inhabiting the most intimate and sovereign dimension of the self. Even when personality is conceived as the walls of a prison-house, it remains a powerful force, able to modify others. This article explores the ways in which these questions are ultimately connected to the paradoxes of Pater's own person and personality, and to the matter of his ‘style’.

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