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 i...

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Superior document:Faux Titre ; 282
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre ; 282.
Physical Description:1 online resource (157 p.)
Notes:Papers from the International colloquium "Cent ans de Bataille: la bataille de cent ans," held Sept. 1998 at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
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Table of Contents:
  • Andrew HUSSEY: The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression
  • Boris BELAY: Le Secret du corps de Madame Edwarda (Bataille de la philosophie à la limite de l'obscène)
  • Martin CROWLEY: L'eschatologie trouée de Ma Mère
  • Lina FRANCO: Deux écrivains face à l'histoire: George Bataille et Elio Vittorini. La hantise du politique
  • Patrick FFRENCH: Dirty Life
  • Paul HEGARTY: As Above, So Below; Informe/Sublime/Abject
  • Andrew HUSSEY: 'The Slaughterhouse of Love': The Corpse of 'Laure'
  • Ian JAMES: From Recuperation to Simulacrum: Klossowski's Readings of George Bataille
  • Cathy MACGREGOR: The Eye of the Storm: Female Representation in Bataille's Madame Edwarda and Histoire de l'oeil
  • John PHILLIPS: 'The Law of the Mother': Masochism, Fetishism and Subjectivity in George Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil
  • Malcolm POLLARD: The Use-Value of Georges Bataille: Philippe Sollers and the Act of Writing
  • Richard WILLIAMS: Informe and 'Anti Form'
  • Notes on Contributors.