Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.

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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spelling cairn-RFEA_132_0121aRFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2012-2-page-121a?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.132.0121a Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p. Coste, Jacques-Henri2013 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 132 | 2 | 2013-03-01 | p. 121a-124a | 0397-7870 RFEA_13252 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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description 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.
author Coste, Jacques-Henri
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Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
author_facet Coste, Jacques-Henri
author_sort Coste, Jacques-Henri
title Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
title_short Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
title_full Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
title_fullStr Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
title_full_unstemmed Thomas Cayet, Rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. Le Bureau International du Travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 283 p.
title_sort thomas cayet, rationaliser le travail, organiser la production. le bureau international du travail et la modernisation économique durant l’entre-deux-guerres. rennes, presses universitaires de rennes, 2010. 283 p.
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