« We were touched by his talking » : The Woman Who Escaped from Shame, de Toby Olson
This paper borrows its title from one narrator’s comment in Toby Olson’s third novel, in order to try and define the experience of being « touched » by storytelling, and by writing : or, what sort of « touch » may occur on the unstable, evasive limit between body and meaning ? The article discusses...
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cairn-RFEA_132_0105RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2012-2-page-105?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.132.0105 « We were touched by his talking » : The Woman Who Escaped from Shame, de Toby Olson Battesti, Anne2013 animalcorps et senseffets de présenceexpérience esthétiqueimage et senslecturenarrationThe Woman Who Escaped from ShameToby Olsonaesthetic experienceanimalbody and meaningimage and meaningnarrationpresence effectsreadingThe Woman Who Escaped from ShameToby Olsonfre Revue française d’études américaines | 132 | 2 | 2013-03-01 | p. 105-120 | 0397-7870 RFEA_13251 This paper borrows its title from one narrator’s comment in Toby Olson’s third novel, in order to try and define the experience of being « touched » by storytelling, and by writing : or, what sort of « touch » may occur on the unstable, evasive limit between body and meaning ? The article discusses the many narrative mediations and obstacles presiding over this story of subjected and liberated bodies, and analyses the radical dissociation established by Olson between seeing and understanding. This serves an exploration of the somehow fabulous power to challenge, mobilize, and displace knowledge and meaning which is granted to the miniature animal bodies accompanying the affected human bodies throughout the novel. The paper then offers some remarks on reading as discontinuous tensions between meaning effects and presence effects, or else as pensive « leaps » inherent in aesthetic experience.Cairn free access |
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This paper borrows its title from one narrator’s comment in Toby Olson’s third novel, in order to try and define the experience of being « touched » by storytelling, and by writing : or, what sort of « touch » may occur on the unstable, evasive limit between body and meaning ? The article discusses the many narrative mediations and obstacles presiding over this story of subjected and liberated bodies, and analyses the radical dissociation established by Olson between seeing and understanding. This serves an exploration of the somehow fabulous power to challenge, mobilize, and displace knowledge and meaning which is granted to the miniature animal bodies accompanying the affected human bodies throughout the novel. The paper then offers some remarks on reading as discontinuous tensions between meaning effects and presence effects, or else as pensive « leaps » inherent in aesthetic experience. |
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