Exposure by Joseph Harris

• Title: Exposure by Joseph Harris
• Author: Joseph Harris
• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• The arts general issues
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions (approx. mm): 151 x 224 x 12

Product Description

The notion of exposure underlies much modern thinking about identity representation ethics desire and sexuality. This provocative notion is explored in a collection of essays selected from and inspired by the proceedings of a conference held in the Department of French at the University of Cambridge in 2002. The authors engage with exposure as both object and mode of representation in a range of cultural media: literature critical theory visual art and film. They analyse a variety of works from the medieval early-modern and modern periods examining not only canonical texts such as Montaigne's Essais but also lesser-studied works such as the psychoanalytic theory of Didier Anzieu the photomontage self-portraits of Claude Cahun and the novel La Nouvelle Pornographie by Marie Nimier. This volume thus both illustrates and more importantly interrogates the richness of the term exposure in a way that is stimulating for students and researchers alike.