
The Papin Sisters
Oxford University Press
Published on 2. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-19-816011-3 (ISBN)
Description
The 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter was an act of unexampled violence by women against women, whose repercussions have been felt in French culture ever since. It received wide journalistic coverage at the time, and subsequently prominent literary figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet have dealt with the case, which has also formed the basis of a stage play (by Wendy Kesselmann) and films by Nico Papatakis, Nancy Meckler and Claude Chabrol. The case casts fascinating light on French provincial life between the wars, the role of women (especially unmarried ones) in French society, and French views of the criminal outsider. Its impact on psychoanalytic discourse, through the work first of Jacques Lacan, then of Francis Dupre and Marie-Magdeleine Lessana, has also been considerable, notably in its contribution to the development of the key notion of the mirror-phase. The almost obsessive recurrence of the case makes of it a fascinating prism through which to examine multiple aspects of recent French culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 Foto bzw. Rasterbild
1 halftone
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-816011-3 (9780198160113)
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Rachel Edwards | Keith Reader
The Papin Sisters
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08/2001
Oxford University Press
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Rachel Edwards is Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Keith Reader is Professor of French, University of Glasgow
Keith Reader is Professor of French, University of Glasgow
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, Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
, Professor of French, University of Glasgow
Content
INTRODUCTIONB ; 1. The Facts of the Case ; 2. Mirrors, Fusions, and Splittings: The Papins, the fait divers, and the Psychoanalysts ; 3. Literary Reproductions ; 4. Cinematic Reproductions ; CONCLUSION ; AFTERWORD ; CHRONOLOGY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX