Kari Weil
Biographic Data
| ID | 440148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Weil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari |
| FAMILY NAME | Weil |
| SIGNATURE | WEIL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California College of the Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6183-6595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fidgeting Fingers and Fickle Flesh in Flaubert
Writing about Francis Bacon, Gilles Deleuze comments on the body as the ‘zone of indiscernibility' between man and animal, especially ‘as it is flesh or meat.' Bacon's fleshy zone, I argue, finds an early illustration in Madame Bovary, where Flaubert will also incorporate notions of ‘animal life’ as described by the nineteenth-century pathologist, Xavier Bichat. This essay will examine these fleshy zones as they relate to changing ideas of skin, …
Notorious
“You believe animals to be wholly deprived of passions” asks the narrator of Balzac's 1836 story, “A Passion in the Desert,” and he adds, “you should know that we can give them all the vices driven by our state of civilization.” It is in the context of Balzac's questioning of animal passion that I would like to consider the striking and passionate expressions shared among the lion, dromedary and human figures in Jules Verreaux' “Lion Attacking a …
Animal Magnetism as Ecocriticism for a Time of Pandemic
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the Austrian physician, Anton Mesmer, posited the existence of a universal fluid that surrounds, penetrates, and connects all bodies, much like the interplanetary forces of attraction and repulsion. The correct flow of this fluid, he believed, was responsible for both physical and psychic health and he developed his practice of animal magnetism as a therapy for those who experienced the ranging symptoms o…
Choreographies of the Living
Reviewed by: Choreographies of the Living: Bio-Aesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance by Carrie Rohman Kari Weil CHOREOGRAPHIES OF THE LIVING: BIO-AESTHETICS IN LITERATURE, ART, AND PERFORMANCE. By Carrie Rohman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. 198. Is it because dance is considered the most "animal" art form that it has been marginalized by art critics? This is one of the important questions raised in Carrie Rohman's Choreog…
Precarious Partners
Matters of Memory and Creaturely Concerns
The writing of history has had a fraught relation to the writing of memory. Memory is unreliable, it can be manipulated, and sometimes, as with traumatic memory, it speaks a language that is diffic
Animating Fictions
Introduction
A Report on the Animal Turn
Theory has gone to the birds . . . and to apes, dogs, and horses. The recent explosion of writing and teaching on animals has recharged those questions of identity and difference, of power and its effects that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Even trauma studies has turned its focus to nonhuman animals, both because of the violence they suffer at human hands and because of the difficulties humans have in assessing the…
Liberté éhontée
The "True" Story of a Misnamed Female Tortoise
French feminism’s écriture féminine
What came to be called French feminism in the United States is principally identified with a group of women writers who achieved prominence in France in the 1970s and 1980s. Although they did not think of themselves as a group, these women promoted an exciting, new approach to thinking about women, their bodies, and their desires, which changed both the shape and the locus of feminist thinking within the US academy. Because of French feminism's e…
Men and Horses
As the modern domain of sport put pressure on the corporeal manifestations of class, gender and race, French sports enthusiasts of the fin-de-siècle promoted equestrianism for producing, if not for revealing, true French manhood. Such manhood was also projected onto the thoroughbred horse, but in a contradictory way since the thoroughbred could refer both to a superior, pure race – an aristocracy – and to a superiority achieved through scientific…
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly: Animal Death, Linguistic Disability, and the Struggle for Ethics Kari Weil (bio) Animal studies, literary studies, and disability studies have recently converged around what could be called a counter-linguistic turn.1 Although many current projects are intent on proving that certain animals do have language capabilities like those of humans, other sectors of animal studies are concerned with forms of subjectivity that are not…
Purebreds and Amazons
kari weil is Visiting Associate Professor of French atUCLA and the author of Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (University of Virginia Press, 1992). This essay is taken from her current project, entitled "Meat, Motion, and Mobility:Representations and Uses of the Horse in Nineteenth-Century France
Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification
Research Article| July 01 1995 Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification Kari Weil Kari Weil kari weil is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University. Her publications include Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (UP of Virginia, 1992). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1995) 7 (2): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7-2-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Spectacular bodies
A Report on the Animal Turn
Theory has gone to the birds . . . and to apes, dogs, and horses. The recent explosion of writing and teaching on animals has recharged those questions of identity and difference, of power and its effects that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Even trauma studies has turned its focus to nonhuman animals, both because of the violence they suffer at human hands and because of the difficulties humans have in assessing the…
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly: Animal Death, Linguistic Disability, and the Struggle for Ethics Kari Weil (bio) Animal studies, literary studies, and disability studies have recently converged around what could be called a counter-linguistic turn.1 Although many current projects are intent on proving that certain animals do have language capabilities like those of humans, other sectors of animal studies are concerned with forms of subjectivity that are not…
Men and Horses
As the modern domain of sport put pressure on the corporeal manifestations of class, gender and race, French sports enthusiasts of the fin-de-siècle promoted equestrianism for producing, if not for revealing, true French manhood. Such manhood was also projected onto the thoroughbred horse, but in a contradictory way since the thoroughbred could refer both to a superior, pure race – an aristocracy – and to a superiority achieved through scientific…
Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification
Research Article| July 01 1995 Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification Kari Weil Kari Weil kari weil is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University. Her publications include Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (UP of Virginia, 1992). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1995) 7 (2): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7-2-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Spectacular bodies
Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification
Research Article| July 01 1995 Romantic Exile and the Melancholia of Identification Kari Weil Kari Weil kari weil is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University. Her publications include Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (UP of Virginia, 1992). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (1995) 7 (2): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7-2-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Purebreds and Amazons
kari weil is Visiting Associate Professor of French atUCLA and the author of Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (University of Virginia Press, 1992). This essay is taken from her current project, entitled "Meat, Motion, and Mobility:Representations and Uses of the Horse in Nineteenth-Century France
French feminism’s écriture féminine
What came to be called French feminism in the United States is principally identified with a group of women writers who achieved prominence in France in the 1970s and 1980s. Although they did not think of themselves as a group, these women promoted an exciting, new approach to thinking about women, their bodies, and their desires, which changed both the shape and the locus of feminist thinking within the US academy. Because of French feminism's e…
Men and Horses
As the modern domain of sport put pressure on the corporeal manifestations of class, gender and race, French sports enthusiasts of the fin-de-siècle promoted equestrianism for producing, if not for revealing, true French manhood. Such manhood was also projected onto the thoroughbred horse, but in a contradictory way since the thoroughbred could refer both to a superior, pure race – an aristocracy – and to a superiority achieved through scientific…
Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly: Animal Death, Linguistic Disability, and the Struggle for Ethics Kari Weil (bio) Animal studies, literary studies, and disability studies have recently converged around what could be called a counter-linguistic turn.1 Although many current projects are intent on proving that certain animals do have language capabilities like those of humans, other sectors of animal studies are concerned with forms of subjectivity that are not…
The "True" Story of a Misnamed Female Tortoise
Liberté éhontée
A Report on the Animal Turn
Theory has gone to the birds . . . and to apes, dogs, and horses. The recent explosion of writing and teaching on animals has recharged those questions of identity and difference, of power and its effects that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Even trauma studies has turned its focus to nonhuman animals, both because of the violence they suffer at human hands and because of the difficulties humans have in assessing the…
Animating Fictions
Introduction
Matters of Memory and Creaturely Concerns
The writing of history has had a fraught relation to the writing of memory. Memory is unreliable, it can be manipulated, and sometimes, as with traumatic memory, it speaks a language that is diffic
Precarious Partners
Choreographies of the Living
Reviewed by: Choreographies of the Living: Bio-Aesthetics in Literature, Art, and Performance by Carrie Rohman Kari Weil CHOREOGRAPHIES OF THE LIVING: BIO-AESTHETICS IN LITERATURE, ART, AND PERFORMANCE. By Carrie Rohman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. 198. Is it because dance is considered the most "animal" art form that it has been marginalized by art critics? This is one of the important questions raised in Carrie Rohman's Choreog…
Animal Magnetism as Ecocriticism for a Time of Pandemic
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the Austrian physician, Anton Mesmer, posited the existence of a universal fluid that surrounds, penetrates, and connects all bodies, much like the interplanetary forces of attraction and repulsion. The correct flow of this fluid, he believed, was responsible for both physical and psychic health and he developed his practice of animal magnetism as a therapy for those who experienced the ranging symptoms o…
Fidgeting Fingers and Fickle Flesh in Flaubert
Writing about Francis Bacon, Gilles Deleuze comments on the body as the ‘zone of indiscernibility' between man and animal, especially ‘as it is flesh or meat.' Bacon's fleshy zone, I argue, finds an early illustration in Madame Bovary, where Flaubert will also incorporate notions of ‘animal life’ as described by the nineteenth-century pathologist, Xavier Bichat. This essay will examine these fleshy zones as they relate to changing ideas of skin, …
Notorious
“You believe animals to be wholly deprived of passions” asks the narrator of Balzac's 1836 story, “A Passion in the Desert,” and he adds, “you should know that we can give them all the vices driven by our state of civilization.” It is in the context of Balzac's questioning of animal passion that I would like to consider the striking and passionate expressions shared among the lion, dromedary and human figures in Jules Verreaux' “Lion Attacking a …
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