Comparative spaces and seeing seduction and horror in bataille

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dc.citation.epage7en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber2en_US
dc.contributor.authorKomins, B. J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-08T07:59:59Z
dc.date.available2019-02-08T07:59:59Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.departmentProgram in Cultures, Civilization and Ideasen_US
dc.description.abstractIn his article, "Comparative Spaces and Seeing Seduction and Horror in Bataille," Benton Jay Komins explores Bataille's preoccupation with "seeing": The eye holds a preeminently ambiguous position in Georges Bataille's universe of enucleated priests and scatological window scenes. Komins' comparative examination presents several aspects of Bataille's eyes: Existing between fascination and revulsion, this most Bataillean organ moves between subjective vision and objective blindness. The eye both captures and is captured in episodes of seductive horror. Through the denigration of vision, Bataille's dethroned eye exceeds the confines of visuality. Bataille develops an extraordinary notion of ocularity -- as a metaphor, action, and traumatic fixation -­ in his novels, autobiographical notes, and critical writing. His compelling eyes surface between written genres and lived experience, that is to say, in the comparative space between the phantasmatic and the social, inviting psychological and historical analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.7771/1481-4374.1078en_US
dc.identifier.issn1481-4374
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/49112
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherPurdue University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1078en_US
dc.source.titleCLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Cultureen_US
dc.titleComparative spaces and seeing seduction and horror in batailleen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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