Contents -- Acknowledgements vii -- GEORGINA EVANS AND ADAM KAY Introduction 1 -- Part 1: The Threat of the Other 7 -- MICHAEL HARRIGAN Méchant Chrétien ne sera jamais bon Turc 9 -- ROGER BAINES Ta mère suce des Schtroumpfs: The Relationship between Face Threat and Solidarity in the Ritual ta mère … Insult Used by French Adolescents 29 -- EMILY BUTTERWORTH Borrowed Soldiers, Borrowed Words: The Threat of the Foreign in Montaigne's 'De la phisionomie' 49 -- Part 2: The Subject on Film 67 -- LAURA MCMAHON Touching Intact: Sophie Calle's Threat to Privacy 69 -- ISABELLE MCNEILL Threat and the Moving Image: Histoire(s) du Cinéma in the Twenty-First Century 85 -- JENNY CHAMARETTE Threatened Corpo-Realities: Decentring and Dissolving Subjectivities in Philippe Grandrieux's La Vie nouvelle 105 -- Part 3: Spaces and Invasions 123 -- GERALDINE MCILWAINE The Threat of the Urban Space in Three Novels by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 125 -- MICHAEL SEABROOK The Monster under the Bed: Threat to the Couple in the Early Works of Flaubert 141 -- ADAM KAYA Beautiful Evil: Erotic Invasion in Ronsard's Amours de Cassandre 155 -- Part 4: The Threatened Subject 175 -- JENNIFER BURRIS Quand on n'est plus qu'une ligne: The Threatened Subject in the Work of Henri Michaux 177 -- JEFFREY KIRKWOOD AND DAVID LOGAN WRIGHT Between Being and Otherwise: Lacunae, Lévinas and the Threat of Totality 197 -- CHRISTOPHER WATKIN Paul Ricoeur and the Threatened Self 217 -- Contributors 233 -- Index 237.