The Cut: Reading Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) [Hardcover]

Patrick French (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0197262007 | ISBN-13: 978-0197262009

Patrick ffrench gives an imaginative theoretical reading of the unsettling masterpiece, Histoire de l'oeil (1928), by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. Bataille's erotic and disturbing text is a traumatic event in the history of modernity, provoking critical moments in the trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around his notion of the informe.

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"[A] lucid and stylishly written account."--Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Patrick ffrench, Lecturer in French, University College, London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: British Academy (March 23, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0197262007
• ISBN-13: 978-0197262009
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,938,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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