HERMENEUTICS OF TEXTUAL MADNESS: RE-READINGS - HERMENEUTIQUE DE LA FOLIE TEXTUELLE: RE-LECTURES - vol II

This two-volume work offers a richly diversified survey of textualized madness – its manifestations and operations – from Antiquity to the present. Approaches embrace historical accounts, contemporary assessments (Lacanian, Kristevian, Freudian, structuralist, post-colonial, feminist, hermeneutical, semiotic, among others) as well as theoretical musings worthy of protracted reflection.  Such a vast panoply of exploratory essays spans, as it must, linguistic, chronological, temporal, geographic and generic boundaries. Each, in its own way, takes part in a collective effort to probe the contours and configurations of an exegetical conundrum that has fascinated and perplexed, lured and stymied writers and readers since the beginning of time. Contributors include: Marc Amfreville ● Sophie Bastien ● Caralyn Bialo ● Daniela Bombara ● Anouck Cape ● Concetta Cavallini ● Albrecht Classen ● Carmen Concilio ● René Corona ● Valentine Cunningham ● Gaetano Dammacco ● Pierre Déléage ● Giovanna Devincenzo ● Giovanni Dotoli ● Simon C. Estok ● Bill Friesen ●  Constantin Frosin ●  Ryan D. Giles ● Pasquale Guaragnella ● Ralph Heyndels ●  Anna Iatsenko ● Salvatore Francesco Lattarulo ● Marcella Leopizzi ● Robert E. Lougy ● Paul Morrison ● M. J. Muratore ● Gillian Ni Cheallaigh ● Maria Nikolajeva ● Annalisa Pes ● Anita Piscazzi ● Augusto Ponzio ● Tatiana Prorokova ● Ellie Ragland ● Alain Rey ● Àngels Santa ● Ralph Sarkonak ● Salah Stétié ● Ben Stoltzfus ● Ilda Tomas ● Elisa Tinelli ● Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat ● Louis Ucciani ● Carlota Vicens-Pujol.


M. J. Muratore (project director and editor) is Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Missouri, Columbia.