The Flesh in the Text

Contents: Thomas Baldwin/James Fowler/Shane Weller: Introduction - Rowan Tomlinson: The Limits of Textual Dissection: The Case of Quaresmeprenant in Rabelais's Le Quart Livre - Pierre Saint-Amand : Les Corps oisifs : Paresse des Lumières - Will McMorran: The Palimpsestic Heroine: Sade's Justine - James Fowler: 'Mettons un peu d'ordre à ces orgies': Bodies and Ideas in Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir - Thomas Baldwin: Proust's Eyes - Erika Fülöp: Becoming Body: Sleep and Writing in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu - Jon Kear: In the Net of Brute Sense: The Body in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics - Shane Weller: The Politics of Body Language: The Beckett Embrace - Ana de Medeiros: Mutilation and Liberation: Filial Relationships in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia - Katie Jones: Literature as Consumption and Expulsion: Amélie Nothomb's 'esthétique du vomissement' - Jeremy Carrette: Foucault, Monks and Masturbation: The Ontology of Masculinity - Lucille Cairns: Dissidences charnelles : The Female Body in Revolt - Patrick Ffrench: Valdemar's Tongue: Voice, Flesh and Death - Nigel Saint: 'This Is My Body': The Words of the Eucharist in the Work of Louis Marin and Jean-Luc Nancy - Naomi Segal: Living the Body Metaphors: Is the Lost Object an Imaginary Friend, a Phantom Limb or a Second Skin?

The Editors: Thomas Baldwin is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005).
James Fowler is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent and is the author of Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative (2000).
Shane Weller is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. His publications include A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism (2005) and Beckett, Literature, and the Ethics of Alterity (2006).