Heartsick: The Language of French Disgust

Autor:	Hannah Freed-Thall
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Literature and Literary Theory 0602 languages and literature 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Psychology 050701 cultural studies Disgust Cognitive psychology
Zdroj:	Modern Language Quarterly. 79:421-444
ISSN:	1527-1943 0026-7929
DOI:	10.1215/00267929-7103422
Popis:	The rhetoric of revulsion has shaped French cultural modernity. This essay examines salient forms of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literary disgust, then turns to écœurement (heartsickness) as a contemporary case study. Écœurement is key to the work of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary and nostalgic—as has often been argued—but can enable new forms of collective resistance and attachment.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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