Secret spaces, forbidden places : rethinking culture / edited by Fran Lloyd and Catherine O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd, Fran, editor.

O'Brien, Catherine, 1962- editor.

Series:

Polygons ; Volume 4.

Polygons ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Secrecy in literature.

Secrecy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2001]

Summary:

In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from different disciplines and different locations, this volume provides a rich and diverse mapping of how the secret and forbidden operate across different subjects and different geographies, extending far beyond physical locations. It is present in domains ranging from language, literature, and cinema to social and political life. This refreshing and thought-provoking collection of essays will prove invaluable for researchers and students.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and Forbidden

PART I THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIRE

1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagerô nikki

2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: Bluebeard

3. Secrecy and Masquerade in Stendhal

4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction

5. Women’s Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean Giraudoux

6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal Szerb

7. Quests in a Cupboard

PART II POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDEN

8. Human Interiority and the French Enlightenment

9. The Hidden World of the Marais

10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar France

11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of Propaganda

12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt’s The Bicycle

13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary France

14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry

PART III VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACES

Image

15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic Virtue

16. ‘Anxious Performances’: Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth- Century London

17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés

18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron Curtain

19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding’s Early Sculpture

20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments – Jenny Holzer and Rachel Whiteread

Conclusion: Rethinking Culture

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789205916

1789205913

9781571817891

1571817891

9781571817884

1571817883