Open Access“A Person Not In The Story”: Clérambault’s And M. R. James’s Textile/Textual Folds
Author(s) -
Luminița-Elena Turcu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
messages, sages, ages
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-6269
pISSN - 1844-8836
DOI - 10.1515/msas-2015-0012
Subject(s) - passion , philology , literature , art , philosophy , psychology , sociology , feminism , social psychology , gender studies
Though unrelated when it comes to their scientific occupations, Clérambault and M. R. James give to the 21 st -century observer the impression that they were strikingly similar in their compulsive preoccupation with draped bodies or with what Gilles Deleuze names “the Fold”. The article investigates the manner in which the French psychiatrist exploited his passion in the innumerable photographs he took in Morocco and in which the English philologist exorcised his fear in fiction, especially in one of his best-known short stories, “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”.