Traditionally conceptualised as the underside or the outside of reason, madness most often rhymes with excess; as such, it continually threatens to transgress all definitional or conceptual limits set by rational thought. Indeed, at the core of rationality is an impulse to delimit and classify, of which categories of genre and gender are quintessential examples. Starting from the observation that depicting madness regularly entails crossing, questioning and redefining genre and gender boundaries, this work investigates how literary representations of madness relate to the classification and conceptualisation of gender and genre in a selection of novels, short stories and plays by six different writers – Janet Frame, Jenny Diski, Sarah Kane,...
PhD ThesisThis study, which is based on close readings of L'Invitee, Les Belles Images and La Femme...
Au début des années soixante, le thème de la folie fait simultanément irruption dans les sciences so...
In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La foli...
Traditionally conceptualised as the underside or the outside of reason, madness most often rhymes wi...
Souvent conceptualisée comme l’envers ou l’opposé de la raison, la folie, presque toujours synonyme ...
Haunting our collective imagination, the madman has always been laden with symbolic significance. Th...
What is madness? What is literature? What relationship does madness and literature have with each ot...
Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam’s novels, populated by marginal characters with multiple psychopathologies, ...
Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’étude de la folie chez trois romans latino-américains contemporains, don...
This dissertation presents an archeology of discourses about female madness from late nineteenth-cen...
Figure obsédante de l’imaginaire collectif, le fou a longtemps été chargé de significations qui le d...
Cette thèse examine l’œuvre poétique de Rimbaud et de Laforgue du point de vue de la catégorie de « ...
Globally and historically, madness appears as a prominent socio-medical concern that also occupies a...
This dissertation aims to understand the motif of madness and its application in creating, and later...
This article proposes to explore the many faces of madness through a reading of Linda Lê’s Calomnies...
PhD ThesisThis study, which is based on close readings of L'Invitee, Les Belles Images and La Femme...
Au début des années soixante, le thème de la folie fait simultanément irruption dans les sciences so...
In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La foli...
Traditionally conceptualised as the underside or the outside of reason, madness most often rhymes wi...
Souvent conceptualisée comme l’envers ou l’opposé de la raison, la folie, presque toujours synonyme ...
Haunting our collective imagination, the madman has always been laden with symbolic significance. Th...
What is madness? What is literature? What relationship does madness and literature have with each ot...
Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam’s novels, populated by marginal characters with multiple psychopathologies, ...
Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’étude de la folie chez trois romans latino-américains contemporains, don...
This dissertation presents an archeology of discourses about female madness from late nineteenth-cen...
Figure obsédante de l’imaginaire collectif, le fou a longtemps été chargé de significations qui le d...
Cette thèse examine l’œuvre poétique de Rimbaud et de Laforgue du point de vue de la catégorie de « ...
Globally and historically, madness appears as a prominent socio-medical concern that also occupies a...
This dissertation aims to understand the motif of madness and its application in creating, and later...
This article proposes to explore the many faces of madness through a reading of Linda Lê’s Calomnies...
PhD ThesisThis study, which is based on close readings of L'Invitee, Les Belles Images and La Femme...
Au début des années soixante, le thème de la folie fait simultanément irruption dans les sciences so...
In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La foli...