Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places

Rethinking Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history.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.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-06-01
Mått140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
Antal sidor320
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571817891

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and ForbiddenFran Lloyd and Catherine O’BrienPART I: THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIREChapter 1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagerô nikkiValerie HenitiukChapter 2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: BluebeardTivadar GorilovicsChapter 3. Secrecy and Masquerade in StendhalJean-Jacques HammChapter 4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French FictionTony WilliamsChapter 5. Women’s Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean GiraudouxVictoria B. KorzeniowskaChapter 6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal SzerbFranciska SkuttaChapter 7. Quests in a CupboardAgnès CardinalPART II: POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDENChapter 8. Human Interiority and the French EnlightenmentXavier MartinChapter 9. The Hidden World of the MaraisGordon PhillipsChapter 10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar FranceSuzanne LangloisChapter 11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of PropagandaMagda StroinskaChapter 12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt’s The BicycleAndrea RinkeChapter 13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary FranceClarissa Wilks and Noëlle BrickChapter 14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist PoetryAnu HirsiahoPART III: VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACESChapter 15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic VirtueJorella AndrewsChapter 16. ‘Anxious Performances’: Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century LondonAndrew P. StephensonChapter 17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp’s Etant DonnésChris HorrocksChapter 18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron CurtainMarja KeränenChapter 19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding’s Early SculptureFran LloydChapter 20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments – Jenny Holzer andRachel WhitereadSue MalvernConclusion: Rethinking CultureFran Lloyd and Catherine O’BrienNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex