Product Description: Ces Etudes semiologiques portent sur deux grandes regions du monde des signes: le visible et le lisible. La question dominante est de determiner si le principe et les regles de la lecture sont applicables aux objets de la mimesis que sont les oeuvres d'art...read more

Product Description: At his death in 1992, the eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist Louis Marin left, in addition to a dozen influential books (including Sublime Poussin, Stanford, 1999), a corpus of some three hundred articles and essays published in journals and anthologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The pages of the Venus Diaries hold chilling fifty-year-old secrets that link the lives of an American World War II hero who became enormously successful and a fashion model-turned-assassin. Original.

Product Description: Complemented by phenomenology on the one hand and by materialism on the other, this book provides a worldview that reconciles old conflicts between nature and society, objective and subjective, individual and group. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Marin's admiration (in both seventeenth-century senses) for the word made flesh, and hence the word made power, is what makes this book both fascinating and disturbing." -- Times Literary SupplementA wicked queen orders the palace cook to kill her grandchildren and serve them up for dinner -- "in a sauce Robert." But as any good cook knows, this sauce is properly served with game, not domestic animals. Does the ogress transgress? Perhaps, but the cook breaks the rules as well. Deceiving his mistress, he rescues the children and instead serves goat and lamb.In this provocative volume, Louis Marin treats a subject to which some of the most exciting literary criticism has been devoted: the body as represented in text and image. From fairy tales to biblical narrative, from the divine body in the eucharist to the body of Louis XIV as described in his physicians' journals, Marin focuses on the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral functions--speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism. Drawing on the methodologies of semiology, philosophy of language, and literary and art criticism, Marin explores works by Rabelais, La Fontaine, Perrault, and the Logic of Port-Royal. Throughout, he is concerned with the conceptualization of desire and pleasure, justice and force, natural violence and political power -- and questions their ideological as well as their symbolic bases. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Marin, Louis