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Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after his death, critics and academics, film-makers and journalists continue to argue over Sartre's legacy. But certain interpretations have congealed around his iconic text Nausea, tending to confine it within the framework provided by the later philosophical work, Being and Nothingness. This volume opens up the text to a range of new approaches within the fields of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Philosophy and French Studies, under the headings: ‘Text’, ‘Context’, and ‘Intertext’: the textual strategies at work within the novel; the literary, cultural and philosophical context of its production; and the intertextual web within which it is situated. This volume will interest a wide public of teachers, students and all those who want to reconsider Sartre’s legacy in the twenty–first century.
Table of ContentsEditors’ Foreword Alistair ROLLS, Elizabeth RECHNIEWSKI: Uprooting the Chestnut Tree: Nausea Today Text Lawrence R. SCHEHR: Sartre’s Autodidacticism George WOODS: Sounds, ‘Sounds, Smells, Degrees of Light’: Art and Illumination in Nausea Thomas MARTIN: The Role of Others in Roquentin’s Nausea Peter POIANA: The Subject as Symptom in Nausea Context Elizabeth RECHNIEWSKI: Avatars of Contingency: Suarès and Sartre Chris FALZON: Sartre and Meaningful Existence Amanda CRAWLEY-JACKSON : La Nausée des Fins de Voyage ? Intertext Keryn STEWART: ‘I Have Finished Travelling’: Travel, Displacement and Intertextuality in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea Debra HELY: Fact or Fiction? Reading Through the Nothingness behind Nausea Alistair ROLLS: Seduction, Pleasure and a Laying on of Hands: A Hands-on Reading of Sartre’s Nausea Notes on Contributors Bibliography
