Space

This book, which is the fruit of papers presented at the seventh Cambridge French Graduate Conference, offers innovative analyses of how space can provide metaphors for human thoughts, utterances and experiences. The authors cross-fertilise different approaches to the significance of space as a thematic and structuring principle in French and Francophone poetry, prose, philosophy and film. They are interested in three broad areas of enquiry: how spaces can be suffused with explorations of identity; how the dividing work done by maps marks and makes spaces; and how particular questions are thrown up by urban spaces. Throughout, the book examines the symbiotic relationship between internal and external, between delimitation and difference.

Autorentext

The Editors: Emma Gilby is Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She specialises in seventeenth-century French literature, with a broad interest in the relations between aesthetics and ethics in that period. She is working on a book on Corneille, Pascal and Boileau and their engagements with the sublime.
Katja Haustein is completing a Ph.D. thesis at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 'Life, Writing and Photography in Proust, Benjamin and Barthes'. Her recent work includes an article on conceptions of selfhood and otherness in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.

Inhalt
Contents: Emma Gilby/Katja Haustein: Introduction Emma J.Cayley: Players and Spaces of Play in Late-Medieval French Manuscript Collections Martin Calder: The Experience of Space in the Eighteenth-Century French Garden: From Axis to Circuit to Closed Circuit Emily Tomlinson: Assia Djebar's Algerian (White) Spaces Phillip John Usher: Chopping up Columbus' Pear: World-Roaming after 1492 Rosemary Chapman: Beautiful North? The North/South Divide in Gabrielle Roy's La Montagne secrète Kathryn Gannon: Mapping the Margins: Representations of Place and Space in Antonine Maillet's Pélagie-la-charrette Emma Wilson: Oblivion and the Modern City: Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Mairi Liston: Inside/Out: The Goncourt Brothers and the Second-Empire Interior Eve Richardson: Space, Projection and the Banal in the Works of Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Nicholson Baker.