Pascale Antolin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pascale Antolin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pascale |
| FAMILY NAME | Antolin |
| SIGNATURE | ANTOLIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Bordeaux Montaigne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
International audience
Sylvie Mathé
International audience
To Be or Not to Be a Patient
This chapter shows to what extent the undiagnosed condition of Ferris’s main protagonist in The Unnamed provokes a questioning of medical classifications and contemporary neurological reduction. With his compulsive walking, the lawyer turns into a tramp. As he is both well-off and homeless, ‘normate’ and disabled, he destabilizes social categories. Writing a syndrome novel without any identified syndrome, borrowing from Dickinson’s poetry and the…
Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room
In Man Walks into a Room, a neuronovel staging an amnesiac, Nicole Krauss challenges the memory-identity equation. While she draws on neuroscience, she also writes against it, as she emphasizes the explanatory gap and the problem of qualia. To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, who uses discursive strat…
Challenging Borders
This article analyses Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a subversive memoir and “counter-diagnosis,” relying on disability studies, women studies and critical discourse analysis. Taking advantage of the metaphoric adjective “borderline” in her diagnosis of “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD), Kaysen constantly emphasizes borders and boundaries—whether topographic, mimetic or generic—in order to cross and transgress them all the better. To…
A “visible form of invisibility”
Cet article interroge les tensions, au cœur du recit de Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, entre exploration et evitement, representation et figuration, symptome physiologique, psychologique et traumatique. Alors que la narratrice explore les principales causes medicales et psychologiques des crises chroniques qu’elle subit, elle evite de suivre la piste du trauma, pourtant mentionnee a maintes reprises. Ces tensions, cependant, se traduisent par …
His cramped and claustrophobic brain
This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophrenic hero (psychoanalytic approach) or to the structure of the brain (neurologic approach). Especially, ambivalence allows subversion to prevail and tra…
The Carnivalesque in Illness
This article analyzes Hollis Seamon's Somebody Up There Hates You in light of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque as it is developed both in Rabelais and His World and in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. The novel shows the power of carnivalesque episodes and ironic laughter to question both the conventional approach to illness and death, and to illness literature in general. However, it also exposes the limits of parody and laughter i…
Cancer was an alchemist”
This article analyzes Eve Ensler’s experiences of vulnerability as they are related in her 2013 memoir, In the Body of the World. While the book illustrates “traditional” or etymological vulnerability, resulting from trauma and cancer, it also exemplifies what American philosopher Erinn Gilson calls “epistemic vulnerability,” i.e. vulnerability not as weakness but as potential. As both illness and trauma narrative, Ensler’s memoir also offers an …
L’« anomalité » à l’œuvre dans Ma mère, musicienne … de Louis Wolfson
International audience
Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. This hybridism helps her not only express her emotional “derang…
Has F. Scott Fitzgerald Become a Literary Icon
Cet obscur objet du désir »
This paper seeks to demonstrate both the strategic and the heuristic role of collections in Fitzgerald's fiction. While they reveal the heroes' (sexual) desire, they also expose a double system of reference which is both mimetic and reflexive. They are thus symptomatic objects exhibiting a close link not only between desire and fiction but also between collector and author throughout the novelist's work
His cramped and claustrophobic brain
This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophrenic hero (psychoanalytic approach) or to the structure of the brain (neurologic approach). Especially, ambivalence allows subversion to prevail and tra…
Cet obscur objet du désir »
This paper seeks to demonstrate both the strategic and the heuristic role of collections in Fitzgerald's fiction. While they reveal the heroes' (sexual) desire, they also expose a double system of reference which is both mimetic and reflexive. They are thus symptomatic objects exhibiting a close link not only between desire and fiction but also between collector and author throughout the novelist's work
Has F. Scott Fitzgerald Become a Literary Icon
Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. This hybridism helps her not only express her emotional “derang…
L’« anomalité » à l’œuvre dans Ma mère, musicienne … de Louis Wolfson
International audience
Cancer was an alchemist”
This article analyzes Eve Ensler’s experiences of vulnerability as they are related in her 2013 memoir, In the Body of the World. While the book illustrates “traditional” or etymological vulnerability, resulting from trauma and cancer, it also exemplifies what American philosopher Erinn Gilson calls “epistemic vulnerability,” i.e. vulnerability not as weakness but as potential. As both illness and trauma narrative, Ensler’s memoir also offers an …
The Carnivalesque in Illness
This article analyzes Hollis Seamon's Somebody Up There Hates You in light of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque as it is developed both in Rabelais and His World and in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. The novel shows the power of carnivalesque episodes and ironic laughter to question both the conventional approach to illness and death, and to illness literature in general. However, it also exposes the limits of parody and laughter i…
A “visible form of invisibility”
Cet article interroge les tensions, au cœur du recit de Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, entre exploration et evitement, representation et figuration, symptome physiologique, psychologique et traumatique. Alors que la narratrice explore les principales causes medicales et psychologiques des crises chroniques qu’elle subit, elle evite de suivre la piste du trauma, pourtant mentionnee a maintes reprises. Ces tensions, cependant, se traduisent par …
His cramped and claustrophobic brain
This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophrenic hero (psychoanalytic approach) or to the structure of the brain (neurologic approach). Especially, ambivalence allows subversion to prevail and tra…
Challenging Borders
This article analyses Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a subversive memoir and “counter-diagnosis,” relying on disability studies, women studies and critical discourse analysis. Taking advantage of the metaphoric adjective “borderline” in her diagnosis of “Borderline Personality Disorder” (BPD), Kaysen constantly emphasizes borders and boundaries—whether topographic, mimetic or generic—in order to cross and transgress them all the better. To…
Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room
In Man Walks into a Room, a neuronovel staging an amnesiac, Nicole Krauss challenges the memory-identity equation. While she draws on neuroscience, she also writes against it, as she emphasizes the explanatory gap and the problem of qualia. To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, who uses discursive strat…
To Be or Not to Be a Patient
This chapter shows to what extent the undiagnosed condition of Ferris’s main protagonist in The Unnamed provokes a questioning of medical classifications and contemporary neurological reduction. With his compulsive walking, the lawyer turns into a tramp. As he is both well-off and homeless, ‘normate’ and disabled, he destabilizes social categories. Writing a syndrome novel without any identified syndrome, borrowing from Dickinson’s poetry and the…
Introduction
International audience
Sylvie Mathé
International audience
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