Le corps surexposé dans les fictions de Brian Evenson

Part of a long-lived American Gothic tradition which lays the emphasis on the parodic dismantling of the human body, the fiction of contemporary American novelist and story writer Brian Evenson overexposes the mutilated body in a way that both entails a sense of horror and titillates the readers’ he...

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1. Verfasser: Ullmo, Anne
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: 2013
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Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:Part of a long-lived American Gothic tradition which lays the emphasis on the parodic dismantling of the human body, the fiction of contemporary American novelist and story writer Brian Evenson overexposes the mutilated body in a way that both entails a sense of horror and titillates the readers’ hermeneutic instinct. Through exploring his novels The Open Curtain (2006) and Last Days (first published in 2003 under the title The Brotherhood of Mutilation, then in 2009), we will thus propose an analysis of the interconnectedness between corporeal and textual dismemberment and will interrogate the figurability of the body as void, of the presence of an absence.