Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker

The notion of “intimacy” is central to Nicholson Baker’s novel Room Temperature, both thematically and theoretically. The narrator, by observing and deconstructing each detail of a scene from his daily life, explores the limits of the expression of his own intimacy. This study aims to understand wh...

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spelling cairn-RFEA_109_0113RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2006-3-page-113?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.109.0113 Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker Fabre, Claire2007 banalintérioritéintimitélimitesreprésentationbanalityinteriorityintimacylimitsrepresentationfre Revue française d’études américaines | 109 | 3 | 2007-01-15 | p. 113-121 | 0397-7870 RFEA_10942 The notion of “intimacy” is central to Nicholson Baker’s novel Room Temperature, both thematically and theoretically. The narrator, by observing and deconstructing each detail of a scene from his daily life, explores the limits of the expression of his own intimacy. This study aims to understand what is really exposed in the “exhibitionism” of the narrator and of the text and what place there is for the reader in such an economy. We will address the question of the frontiers between “autobiography,” “interiority” and “intimacy” in the contemporary perspective of the blurring of the boundary between exteriority and interiority, or even of a radical questioning of these concepts.Cairn free access
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topic banal
intériorité
intimité
limites
représentation
banality
interiority
intimacy
limits
representation
spellingShingle banal
intériorité
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banality
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Fabre, Claire
Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
topic_facet banal
intériorité
intimité
limites
représentation
banality
interiority
intimacy
limits
representation
description The notion of “intimacy” is central to Nicholson Baker’s novel Room Temperature, both thematically and theoretically. The narrator, by observing and deconstructing each detail of a scene from his daily life, explores the limits of the expression of his own intimacy. This study aims to understand what is really exposed in the “exhibitionism” of the narrator and of the text and what place there is for the reader in such an economy. We will address the question of the frontiers between “autobiography,” “interiority” and “intimacy” in the contemporary perspective of the blurring of the boundary between exteriority and interiority, or even of a radical questioning of these concepts.
author Fabre, Claire
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title Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
title_short Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
title_full Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
title_fullStr Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
title_full_unstemmed Aux frontières de l'intime : l'intériorité exhibée dans Room Temperature (1984) de Nicholson Baker
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