Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies

Libby Saxton/Simon Kemp: Introduction–Martin Crowley: ‘Que pourraiton montrer d'autre que ce qu'on voit?’: Duras and the Photography of the Real–Nick Hanlon: Baudrillard’s Aesthetic–Patrick Sheil: Neither Here nor There: Merleau-Ponty on Vision and Existence–Stamatina Dimakopoulou: On Seeing in Surrealism: Max Ernst’s Objects of Vision–Rakhee Balaram: Eyes Wide Open, Eyes Wide Shut: Defining the Surrealist Eye–Hannah Westley: Visions of the Muse in Michel Leiris’s L'Age d'Homme–Alistair Swiffen: Seeing Double/Hearing Things: In(s)anity in the Aumonymes of Robert Desnos–Claire Boyle: Resisting the Whole Picture: The Gaze, and Reading Autobiogrpahies by Nathalie Sarraute and Georges Perec–Sonya Stephens: Baudelaire and Courbet: The Art of the Unfinished–Ariane Smart: Hugo Visionnaire: Realism and Symbolism in the Myth of Paris–Blandine Chambost: The Mesmerizing Muse: Salome seen by Moreau and Mallarme–Jean Khalfa: Seeing the Present–Emma Wilson: Screening Pleasure: Touch and Vision in Contemporary Cinema (Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Blanc)–Carol O'Sullivan: Picturing Characters: Zazies a gogo.