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Titre Le corps surexposé dans les fictions de Brian Evenson
Auteur Anne Ullmo
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'études américaines
Numéro no 132, 2ème trimestre 2012 Poétiques du corps dans la littérature américaine / Aesthetics of the Body in American Literature
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier : Poétiques du corps dans la littérature américaine
Page 34-47
Résumé anglais 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.
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