Department of French and Italian

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield

Assistant Professor of French Literature

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Bio

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield received her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California at San Diego and specializes in 20th-century poetry and critical theory. She rencently finished her first book entitled Bataille, la Terreur et les Lettres. The book questions canonical readings of Bataille as a “terrorist” writer and proposes to reconsider Bataille’s critique of literature through its paradoxical affinities with Jean Paulhan’s call to a “return to rhetoric.” Elisabeth, who now plans to work on representations of Animality in 20th Century thought and culture as well as questions of trauma and memory, has also published articles on Francis Ponge, Pierre Michon and Bataille’s readings of Proust.

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Articles:

• “Le pain de Ponge,”QUI PARLE, 2, 2 (1988): 101-117.
• “The Impossible Sacrifice of Poetry, Bataille and the Nancian Critique of Sacrifice,” Diacritics 26 (1996): 86-96
• “Réminiscence de Proust ou comment ne pas décider de la poésie,” MLN 113 (1998): 757-779.
• “Portrait de l'artiste en facteur, ” Ivan Farron and Pierre Kurtos editors, Pierre Michon entre pinacothèque et Bibliothèque, Berne: Peter Lange, 2003: 97-122.
• “L'intimité du dehors, érotiques textuelles, ” L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, (Spring 2004): 51-67.
• “Introduction: Aesthetics of Intimacy, Esthétiques de l'intime, ” L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. XLIV, No. 1 (Spring 2004): 3-8, Co-author with Suzanne Pucci, introduction to special issue edited.
• “Poésie et non savoir, ” MLN, 119, n. 4 (2004): 782-799
• “L’imitation de Marcel Proust,” Proust et Bataille, in Lectures de Proust au Vingtième Siècle, vol. 1., J. Brami Editor, forthcoming, Paris, Minard, 2008.
• "La machine à renverser le sens de la terreur : Bataille et Paulhan," forthcoming in French Forum, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Research Interests:

• 20th - century French literature (poetry)

• Philosophy and literary theory: “transgression” in modern art

• Literature, history and politics in 20th - century thought: trauma and memory

• Animality in 20th Century thought and culture

Contact:

Office Hours: R 11:30-12:30, 2:00-3:00, HUMN 331

Office Phone: (303) 735-5169

Email: Elisabeth.Arnould-Bloomfield@colorado.edu