cam a22 4500 282803408 CHVBK 20201021200356.0 130818s2004 sz ||||| m||| 00 |eng d Catalogage: décrit l'ex. de thèse version papier geudbu/04.2006 (RERO)R004107049 (SNL)991008943429703976 (Sz)1453057-41snl_51 (Sz)vtls001453057 (Sz)001453057 RERO geudbu sz ch-ge s1an rero 800 22sdnb Fidecaro Agnese (IDREF)074157280 cre Exposed bodies crises of experience in twentieth-century German, French and English literature Agnese Fidecaro Genève [éditeur non identifié] 2004 365 p. 30 cm Th. lett. Genève, 2004 ; L. 558 Literaturverz. Directrice de thèse: Professeure Deborah Madsen This thesis analyses the figure of the exposed body in works by Benjamin, Kafka, Leiris, Sebald, Berger and others. Taking as its starting point Benjamin's essay "Experience and Poverty", it argues that its enigmatic figuration of the "tiny, frail body," resists those readings that currently foreground the materiality of the body exposed to violence: Should the body be considered a new ethical foundation? Has it fallen out of language? Does the crisis of experience diagnosed by Benjamin open into an area of trauma, and does the task of literature become one of testimony? Contesting the interpretations developed by Felman and Agamben, this thesis takes an alternative view: the frail body remains a "rhetorical" resource for those writers who, like John Berger, reconceive its materiality, resist the dislocation of experience and rethink the idea of community sb 2006/07 800 snl-sb BK020300 XK020000 XK020000 SNL NB001 NB001 Nbq 59232 NB10010 RERO RE61001 RE61001 RE610010022 BGE Qvr 160 RERO RE61096 RE61096 RE610960033 BFLQG 588 RERO 100 1- Fidecaro Agnese (IDREF)074157280 cre SNL 100 1- Fidecaro Agnese