The beautiful and the monstrous
Subtitle: essays in French literature, thought and culture
By: Amaleena Damlé and Aurélie L'Hostis, eds
Contributors: Damlé, Amaleena; L'Hostis, Aurélie
Series: Modern French identities -- v. 87; Modern French identities -- v. 87.
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9783039119004
Subjects: French Aesthetics; Philosophy; French Art; History and criticism; Literatur; French literature; Schönheit; Civilization; Congresses; French Philosophy; Das @Monströse; Das @Hässliche
Other titles: Essays in French literature, thought and culture; French literature, thought and culture
Notes: "The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beauty and the place of the subject : reading Merleau-Ponty after Kant  -- Kristy Guneratne; title: The beauty of 'lame' sonnets  -- Dominique Chaigne; title: Beauty and monstrosity in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1824  -- Fiona Gatty; title: A dance of angels and monsters : Victor Hugo's caducean aesthetics  -- Cecilia A. Falgas-Ravry; title: Une œuvre barbare et délicate : Hervé Guibert and the limits of representation  -- Catherine Markey; title: Uncanny Balbec : crypts, nightmares and phantoms in Les intermittences du cœur  -- Anna Magdalena Elsner; title: The flower and the monster : on Huysmans' painters  -- Nicolas Valazza; title: Surrealism and the sublime or the vertiginous plunging into the real  -- Klem James; title: Neither beast nor man : qu'est que c'est qu'un monstre?  -- Martin Llewellyn; title: The beastly and the courtly in medieval tales of transformation : Bisclaveret, Melion and Mélusine  -- Miranda Griffin; title: Diane as beauty : three seventeenth-century examples  -- Ruth G. Vorstman; title: The black maid and her mistress in Manet and Zola  -- Jennifer Yee; title: The monstrous female : images of abjection in Marie NDiaye's Hilda  -- Elizabeth Lindley; title: Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and 'race' in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour -- Andrew Asibong.