TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader,Keith
TI  - The Abject Object: Avatars of the Phallus in Contemporary French Theory, Literature and Film 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789401201735
AV  - PQ307.G35 
U1  - 840.9/353 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - French literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Masculinity in literature
KW  - Penis in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Chapter One: The Lacanian phallus -- Chapter Two: Abjection -- Chapter Three: The abject phallus in fiction: Bataille and Adamov -- Chapter Four: Abject phalluses, abject penises: Serge Doubrovsky and Michel Houellebecq -- Chapter Five: Phallic narrative transvestism: Christiane Rochefort and Christine Angot -- Chapter Six: The abject phallus in cinema: Godard, Ferreri, Eustache, Noé, Bonello -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts - the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts - literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noé, Bonello) - in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities - and the phallus that symbolizes them - can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401201735
ER  -