TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader,Keith
TI  - The abject object: avatars of the phallus in contemporary French theory, literature and film 
T2  - Chiasma
SN  - 142378913X
AV  - PQ307.G35 R43 2006eb
U1  - 840.9/353 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - French literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Penis in literature
KW  - Masculinity in literature
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Gender identity in motion pictures
KW  - Littérature française
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Théorie, etc
KW  - Pénis dans la littérature
KW  - Masculinité dans la littérature
KW  - Identité de genre dans la littérature
KW  - Cinéma
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Masculinité au cinéma
KW  - Identité de genre au cinéma
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Lacanian phallus -- Abjection -- The abject phallus in fiction : Bataille and Adamov -- Abject phalluses, abject penises : Serge Doubrovsky and Michel Houellebecq -- Phallic narrative transvestism : Christiane Rochefort and Christine Angot -- The abject phallus in cinema : Godard, Ferreri, Eustache, Noé, Bonello; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
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 be
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