Cacaphonies : the excremental canon of French literature /

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"Readers and critics have long overlooked excrement's vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Cacaphonies reads key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kim, Annabel L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1900-2099
Feces in literature.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
French fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Fèces dans la littérature.
Roman français > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman français > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Feces in literature
French fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: We have always been fecal
  • Necessary shit. Céline: shit on the installment plan
  • Beckett: shit for brains
  • Shitty ideas. Fecal freedom: Sartre and Genet's ))< >((
  • To wipe the other: Duras's and Gary's fecal care ethics
  • Political shit. Fighting words: Anne Garréta's ultimate weapon
  • Daniel Pennac's excremental poetics: literature for all
  • Conclusion: Caca communism.

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