The Beast at Heaven's Gate : Georges Bataille and the art of transgression

The Beast at Heaven's Gate : Georges Bataille and the art of transgression / edited by Andrew Hussey.

The essays in this collection were originally given at the international colloquium Cent Ans de Bataille: La Bataille de Cent Ans held at the Fondació Tàpies in Barcelona in September 1998. They are written from a variety of perspectives but are drawn together by the singular aim of addressing and...

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Corporate Author: International colloquium "Cent ans de Bataille: la bataille de cent ans" Fundaciao Antoni Taapies
Other Authors: Hussey, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Faux titre ; no. 282.
Subjects:
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962
French literature > Congresses.
POETRY > Continental European.
French literature
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Beast at Heaven's Gate; Table of Contents; The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression; Le Secret du corps de Madame Edwarda (Bataille de la philosophie à la limite de l'obscène); L'Eschatologie trouée de Ma Mère; Deux écrivains face à l'histoire: Georges Bataille et Elio Vittorini. La hantise du politique; Dirty Life London
  • Paris
  • Barcelona
  • Trier
  • Frankfurt; As Above So Below: Informe/Sublime/Abject; 'The Slaughterhouse of Love': The Corpse of 'Laure'; From Recuperation to Simulacrum: Klossowski's Readings of Bataille
  • The Eye of the Storm
  • Female Representation in Bataille's Madame Edwarda and Histoire de l'oeil'The Law of the Mother': Masochism, Fetishism and Subjectivity in Georges Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil; The Use-value of Georges Bataille: Philippe Sollers and the Act of Writing; Informe and 'Anti Form'; Notes on Contributors

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