Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject

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Hardt, Michael

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Ozierski, Margaret Alice

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2012-01-12T13:35:04Z

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2012-01-12T13:35:04Z

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2011

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Romance Studies

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This dissertation examines the pair subject-subjectivity embedded in the problematic of the end of art, as it is figured in exemplary fashion by film and literature. The analysis examines critically the problem of the subject vis-à-vis subjectivity by opening a dialogue that allows the necessary double terms of this discussion to emerge in the first place from the encounter with selected filmic and literary texts: Jacques Rivette's La belle noiseuse and Samuel Beckett's Film, The Unnamable and The Lost Ones. These texts are analyzed on an equal footing with the thought of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben, and Gilles Deleuze who have written on both subjectivity and art. The study thus proposes a real movement - in terms and through art - that treats the metaphor of anamorphosis on the level of praxis: the image of subjectivity appears on the screen that is the filmic or literary text as the result of a passage in terms. The subject that emerges at the end of the analysis puts in perspective a certain practice of metonymic reading as renewed political potential of subjectivity.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5043

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Romance literature

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Film studies

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Philosophy

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Agamben

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Barthes

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Beckett

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Foucault

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Subject

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Subjectivity

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Beautiful Annoyance: Reading the Subject

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Dissertation

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