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In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history. By bringing together writers from different disciplines and different locations, this volume provides a rich and diverse mapping of how the secret and forbidden operate across different subjects and different geographies, extending far beyond physical locations. It is present in domains ranging from language, literature, and cinema to social and political life. This refreshing and thought-provoking collection of essays will prove invaluable for researchers and students.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Spaces, Places, Sites/Sights of the Secret and Forbidden
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O’Brien
PART I: THE LITERARY SPACES OF DESIRE
Chapter 1. Walls, Curtains and Screens: Spatio-Sexual Metaphor in the Kagerô nikki
Valerie Henitiuk
Chapter 2. Secrets of the Forbidden Chamber: Bluebeard
Tivadar Gorilovics
Chapter 3. Secrecy and Masquerade in Stendhal
Jean-Jacques Hamm
Chapter 4. Thresholds of Desire and Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Tony Williams
Chapter 5. Women’s Sanctuaries and Spatial Transgressions in the Novels of Jean Giraudoux
Victoria B. Korzeniowska
Chapter 6. Forbidden Desires: Adolescent Sexuality in Jean Cocteau and Antal Szerb
Franciska Skutta
Chapter 7. Quests in a Cupboard
Agnès Cardinal
PART II: POLITICS OF THE FORBIDDEN
Chapter 8. Human Interiority and the French Enlightenment
Xavier Martin
Chapter 9. The Hidden World of the Marais
Gordon Phillips
Chapter 10. Making Ideal Histories: The Film Censorship Board in Postwar France
Suzanne Langlois
Chapter 11. Forbidden Reality: the Language and Functions of Propaganda
Magda Stroinska
Chapter 12. Walking a Tightrope Over Forbidden Territory: East German Cinema and Evelyn Schmidt’s The Bicycle
Andrea Rinke
Chapter 13. Naming and Exclusion: the Politics of Language in Contemporary France
Clarissa Wilks and Noëlle Brick
Chapter 14. Cobwebby States, Chilled Vaults? The Nation State in Contemporary Irish Feminist Poetry
Anu Hirsiaho
PART III: VISUAL SPACES EMBODIED PLACES
Chapter 15. The Virtual Intersection: a Meditation on Domestic Virtue
Jorella Andrews
Chapter 16. ‘Anxious Performances’: Aestheticism, the Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century London
Andrew P. Stephenson
Chapter 17. You Want to See? Well, take a look at this! Ethical Vision, Disembodiment and Light in Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés
Chris Horrocks
Chapter 18. Lost in Space Between East and West: Roots Behind the Iron Curtain
Marja Keränen
Chapter 19. Making Spaces Visible: Alison Wilding’s Early Sculpture
Fran Lloyd
Chapter 20. Hidden Spaces and Public Places: Women, Memory and Contemporary Monuments – Jenny Holzer and
Rachel Whiteread
Sue Malvern
Conclusion: Rethinking Culture
Fran Lloyd and Catherine O’Brien
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Catherine O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in French and German at Kingston University.
Summary
In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history.
