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Papers by Gayle Zachmann
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
South Atlantic Review, 2000
Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of ... more Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Eve Future", a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her "life" to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.
South Atlantic Review, 1998
South Atlantic Review, 1997
South Atlantic Review, 1998
South Atlantic Review, 1997
South Atlantic Review, 2000
Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of ... more Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Eve Future", a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her "life" to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature
Review of: Camille Lebrun. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana. Trans. by E. Jo... more Review of: Camille Lebrun. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana. Trans. by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Contemporary French Civilization
SubStance, 1998
Contemporary feminist critics have often described surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automa... more Contemporary feminist critics have often described surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automatic Woman, Katharine Conley addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses of works by a range ...
South Central Review, 2012
Introduction to a special issue of South Central Review dedicated to Larry Schehr.
Journal of Jewish Identities
By tracing the significance of the pictorial arts for Mallarme\u27s thought and the consubstantia... more By tracing the significance of the pictorial arts for Mallarme\u27s thought and the consubstantiality of the visual and the textual in his writing, Frameworks for Mallarme responds to a historical categorization of the poet\u27s work which has tended to crystallize on the importance of music. Frameworks aesthetically and culturally contextualizes Mallarme\u27s poetry, art criticism, and theoretical writings to argue that his analogical exploitations of music, art and theatre articulate a late nineteenth-century reconception of mimesis. The dissertation explores the evolution and significance of his interest in subjectivity, specularity, and the sensory within the contexts of ut pictura poesis and discourses of Realism and Naturalism. A close reading of an early kernel text (Igitur) which rethinks Cartesian thought, subjectivity, and the cognitive processes involved in poetic technique lays the philosophical and aesthetic groundwork for the thesis and for an analysis of Mallarme\u27s...
L'Esprit Créateur, 2016
Abstract: A discussion of the framing of Asia in the work of select Third Republic figures associ... more Abstract: A discussion of the framing of Asia in the work of select Third Republic figures associated with La Revue Blanche, this essay examines the ways in which japonisme may serve as a passe-partout for visual, verbal, and even social dissidence.
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
South Atlantic Review, 2000
Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of ... more Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Eve Future", a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her "life" to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.
South Atlantic Review, 1998
South Atlantic Review, 1997
South Atlantic Review, 1998
South Atlantic Review, 1997
South Atlantic Review, 2000
Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of ... more Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Eve Future", a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her "life" to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.
SUNY Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2008
Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature
Review of: Camille Lebrun. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana. Trans. by E. Jo... more Review of: Camille Lebrun. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana. Trans. by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Contemporary French Civilization
SubStance, 1998
Contemporary feminist critics have often described surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automa... more Contemporary feminist critics have often described surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automatic Woman, Katharine Conley addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses of works by a range ...
South Central Review, 2012
Introduction to a special issue of South Central Review dedicated to Larry Schehr.
Journal of Jewish Identities
By tracing the significance of the pictorial arts for Mallarme\u27s thought and the consubstantia... more By tracing the significance of the pictorial arts for Mallarme\u27s thought and the consubstantiality of the visual and the textual in his writing, Frameworks for Mallarme responds to a historical categorization of the poet\u27s work which has tended to crystallize on the importance of music. Frameworks aesthetically and culturally contextualizes Mallarme\u27s poetry, art criticism, and theoretical writings to argue that his analogical exploitations of music, art and theatre articulate a late nineteenth-century reconception of mimesis. The dissertation explores the evolution and significance of his interest in subjectivity, specularity, and the sensory within the contexts of ut pictura poesis and discourses of Realism and Naturalism. A close reading of an early kernel text (Igitur) which rethinks Cartesian thought, subjectivity, and the cognitive processes involved in poetic technique lays the philosophical and aesthetic groundwork for the thesis and for an analysis of Mallarme\u27s...
L'Esprit Créateur, 2016
Abstract: A discussion of the framing of Asia in the work of select Third Republic figures associ... more Abstract: A discussion of the framing of Asia in the work of select Third Republic figures associated with La Revue Blanche, this essay examines the ways in which japonisme may serve as a passe-partout for visual, verbal, and even social dissidence.