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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Georges Bataille"”.
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The Presence of Rimbaud in the Poetics of Georges Bataille
The poetics of Georges Bataille are relatively little known in the critical literature on Bataille, in part due to the fact that the relevant texts are somewhat dispersed across his complete works, and partly because Bataille is most often still not thought of as a poet or as a writer who considers …
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Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France
While most commentators have dismissed Bataille's political commitments, this work has attempted to demonstrate the sincerity (while also emphasizing the impracticality) of Bataille's political agenda. It is the contention of this work that Bataille's politics appear incomprehensible or …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
… labour, under the lens of French philosopher Georges Bataille (1897–1962). A historical overview of the understanding of labour reveals the contemporary moment as positioned on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene. A moment, which in the context of this …
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The informe in David Lynch's cinema : reading American film through the 'Philosophy' of Georges Bataille
… of conceptual systems French philosopher Georges Bataille termed 'informe'. Each chapter of this thesis explores an aspect of American ideology that has been shaped within filmic conventions of genre, narration and representation, analysing how the informe in Lynch's films encourages …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
… political theology, focusing on the works of Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil, to read this disparate constellation of writers as making up a loose theological movement, one that pushed for a resignification of theology’s central signs and whose importance has yet to be …
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Shakespeare and the cinema of excess
… It takes its critical approach from the work of Georges Bataille, who used "eroticism" to describe a confrontation with excess that destabilises the individual’s sense of identity. Bataille suggests that art can allow audiences to experience a measure of eroticism by presenting subjects that …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… It draws extensively on the writings of Georges Bataille, particularly his concepts of the sacred, self and community, and the art of Joseph Beuys, particularly his active employment of myth and shamanism, and his concern with the socially transformative potential of art.
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Female Transcendence: Approaching the "Experiénce Extrême" in Contemporary French Horror Cinema
… their correlation of the female body and what Georges Bataille calls the “expérience extrême”. Through an examination of Inside, Martyrs, Trouble Every Day, and In My Skin this thesis will examine how women are the sites and agents of the expérience extrême, arguing that this embodiment …
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A literary perspective on the notion of le hasard in twentieth century France
… importance of such events to the philosophies of Georges Bataille and Jean-Paul Sartre. This shift in attitude is emphasized through a contrastive study of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son mai tre, Zola's Therese Raquin and Huysmans' A Rebours. The study leads to discussion of the possible …
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Le tabou et ses représentations littéraires: "Ma mère" de G Bataille, "Le Nécrophile" de G Wittkop et "Putain" de N Arcan
… prostitution. L'analyse des textes de Ma mère de Georges Bataille (1967), du Nécrophile de Gabrielle Wittkop (1972) et de Putain de Nelly Arcan (2001) découvre les différentes stratégies d'écriture sous-jacentes à une représentation subversive du tabou en littérature.
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
… these exempla through the theoretical texts of Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Mary Douglas, as well as others, and conclude that speech acts, whether deviant or sanctioned, make identity at any level (de)constructable. I hope to show that while this is particularly …
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Whalelight: A Sounding
… Jean-Paul Sartre, St. Augustine of Hippo, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Plato to articulate a poetics relevant to the novel—and to the weird. The poetics suggests that the experience of weirdness is a deformation of psychological, emotional, and conceptual givens, and as such may …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
… 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 play a …
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Staging community: a non-philosophical presentation of immanent social experience
… seminal discourses of community, in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, which attempt to grasp such a social experience departing from a philosophical ground, and it argues that each of these approaches constitutes a circular logic that places the reality of its “object” beyond the …
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Critical encounters: Bataille, Blanchot and the literary real
… the encounter (the meeting and interlinking) of Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot – as generated by the comparative angle that structures the thesis. The literary real addresses both the question of what kind of ‘real’ is involved and disclosed in writing (and how that might differ from …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… work through the theory of Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger.
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… art. The authors considered here, including Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and Collette Peignot, believed that literature could effect a renewed religious sense of human communion able to redress the social and political fragmentation of interwar France. Integral to this endeavor was their …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… intellectual biographies of four protagonists: Georges Bataille, a novelist, anthropology enthusiast, and amateur prehistorian; Henri Lefebvre, a Marxist philosopher turn rural sociologist turned urban theorist; Georges Devereux, a pioneering ethnographer and trained psychiatrist; and Mircea …
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In the Shadows of Capitalism: Human Trafficking, Embodied Potlatch, and Enclaves of Entrapment in Brazilian and Mexican Cultural Production
… including works from Sayak Valencia, Georges Bataille, Teresa P.R. Caldeira, and Zygmunt Bauman. Valencia’s theoretical concept of gore capitalism allows me to theorize how human trafficking functions as an excess of gore capitalism. Furthermore, Bataille’s reading of the ritual of the …
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Eating otherwise : food and being in twentieth-century literature
… century, focusing primarily on the works of Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, and Margaret Atwood. This selection of authors provides a distinction between the two halves of the twentieth century, the first generally associated with the modernist movement – where acts of eating …
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