Miracle De La Rose

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194265
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle of the Rose written by Jean Genet and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the greatest achievements of modern literature.”—Richard Howard “A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiri­tual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love.”—Saturday Review “Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.”—The New York Times “This book recreates for the reader Genet’s magic world, one of dazzling beauty charged with novelty and excitement.”—Bettina Knapp “Genet would have deserved international standing for this novel alone. . . . He succeeds to an amazing degree in creating poetry from the profoundest degradation.”—The Times (London)

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle de la Rose written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634615
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rites of Passage of Jean Genet written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Gene A. Plunka argues that the most important single element that solidifies all of Genet's work is the concept of metamorphosis. Genet's plays and prose demonstrate the transition from game playing to the establishment of one's identity through a state of risk taking that develops from solitude. However, risk taking per se is not as important as the rite of passage. Anthropologist Victor Turner's work in ethnography is used as a focal point for the examination of rites of passage in Genet's dramas." "Rejecting society, Genet has allied himself with peripheral groups, marginal men, and outcasts--scapegoats who lack power in society. Much of their effort is spent in revolt or direct opposition in mainstream society that sees them as objects to be abused. As an outcast or marginal man, Genet solved his problem of identity through artistic creation and metamorphosis. Likewise, Genet's protagonists are outcasts searching for positive value in a society over which they have no control; they always appear to be the victims or scapegoats. As outcasts, Genet's protagonists establish their identities by first willing their actions and being proud to do so." "Unfortunately, man's sense of Being is constantly undermined by society and the way individuals react to roles, norms, and values. Roles are the products of carefully defined and codified years of positively sanctioned institutional behavior. According to Genet, role playing limits individual freedom, stifles creativity, and impedes differentiation. Genet equates role playing with stagnant bourgeois society that imitates rather than invents; the latter is a word Genet often uses to urge his protagonists into a state of productive metamorphosis. Imitation versus invention is the underlying dialectic between bourgeois society and outcasts that is omnipresent in virtually all of Genet's works." "Faced with rejection, poverty, oppression, and degradation, Genet's outcasts often escape their horrible predicaments by living in a world of illusion that consists of ceremony, game playing, narcissism, sexual and secret rites, or political charades. Like children, Genet's ostracized individuals play games to imitate a world that they can not enter. Essentially, the play acting becomes catharsis for an oppressed group that is otherwise confined to the lower stratum of society." "Role players and outcasts who try to find an identity through cathartic game playing never realize their potential in Genet's world. Instead, Genet is interested in outcasts who immerse themselves in solitude and create their own sense of dignity free from external control. Most important, these isolated individuals may initially play games, yet they ultimately experience metamorphosis from a world of rites, charades, and rituals to a type of "sainthood" where dignity and nobility reign. The apotheosis is achieved through a distinct act of conscious revolt designed to condemn the risk taker to a degraded life of solitude totally distinct from society's norms and values." --Book Jacket.

Author : Kadji Amin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372592
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disturbing Attachments written by Kadji Amin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Genet (1910–1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory. Pederasty, which was central to Genet's sexuality and to his passionate cross-racial and transnational political activism late in life, is among a series of problematic and outmoded queer attachments that Amin uses to deidealize and historicize queer theory. He brings the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing. Disturbing Attachments productively and provocatively unsettles queer studies by excavating the history of its affective tendencies to reveal and ultimately expand the contexts that inform the use and connotations of the term queer.

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of the Rose written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Werner Henze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Miracle de la Rose written by Hans Werner Henze and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351195298
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consuming Autobiographies written by Claire Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap into the vein of what the French term ecriture de soi. This coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle autobiographie' where the very possibility of autobiographical expression is questioned. In the first book-length study in English to address this phenomenon, Claire Boyle sheds a new light on this hostility toward autobiography through a series of ground-breaking studies of estrangement in autobiographical works by major post-war authors Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Jean Genet and Helene Cixous. She identifies autobiography as a site of conflict between writer and reader, as authors struggle to assert the unknowableness of their identity in the face of a readership resolutely desiring privileged knowledge. Autobiography emerges as a deeply troubling genre for authors, with the reader as an antagonistic consumer of the autobiographical self."

Author : Dean Spruill Fansler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and the Roman de la Rose written by Dean Spruill Fansler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Flowers written by Jean Genet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.

Author : Michael Lucey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022660621X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Someone written by Michael Lucey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these “misfit” sexualities gravitate towards same-sex encounters. Yet they differ in subtle but crucial ways from mainstream gay or lesbian identities—whether because of a discordance between gender identity and sexuality, practices specific to a certain place and time, or the fleetingness or non-exclusivity of desire. Investigating works by Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Genet, and others, Lucey probes both the range of same-sex sexual forms in twentieth-century France and the innovative literary language authors have used to explore these evanescent forms. As a portrait of fragile sexualities that involve awkward and delicate maneuvers and modes of articulation, Someone reveals just how messy the ways in which we experience and perceive sexuality remain, even to ourselves.