Skirting the issue : essays in literary theory / Mary Lydon.
What is the relation of criticism to literature? What does it mean to call oneself a woman? What does a (feminine) coming to writing - "la venue l'ecriture," in Cixous's phrase - imply? How may feminist strategies of reading appropriate the literary theory developed in France sin...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t The critical self: |t Homework -- |t Calling yourself a woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette -- |t Myself and M/others: Colette, Wilde, and Duchamp -- |g 2. |t From dress to text: |t Pli selon pli: Proust and Fortuny -- |t Skirting the issue: Mallarme, Proust, and symbolism -- |g 3. |t A reader's discourse: |t The forgetfulness of memory: Jacques Lacan, Marguerite Duras, and the text -- |t Hats and cocktails: Simone de Beauvoir's heady texts -- |t "Here's looking at you, kid!": toast a Marcel Duchamp -- |t The story of Adele H.; or, The insistence of the letter -- |g 4. |t The procession of theory: |t Amplification: Barthes, Freud, and paranoia -- |t Drawing the line: writing, representation, and the postmodern -- |t What is your pleasure? -- |t Foucault and feminism: a romance of many dimensions -- |g 5. |t Writing/translating: |t The mother tongue: the case of Samuel Beckett. |
| 520 | |a What is the relation of criticism to literature? What does it mean to call oneself a woman? What does a (feminine) coming to writing - "la venue l'ecriture," in Cixous's phrase - imply? How may feminist strategies of reading appropriate the literary theory developed in France since the 1960s? What is involved in reading "like a woman?" These are some of the questions Mary Lydon explores in Skirting the Issue. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a Identifying with a series of French literary theorists, she adopts their manner rather than their putative "method" as she responds to selected French artists and writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The result is a suite of readings that show what has come to be known as "French theory" in operation: readings that are a la Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault - "after" them in the sense that a drawing might be described as "after Leonardo" - rather than a rehearsal of their thought. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a Operative rather than explicative, Lydon's approach illuminates writers and theorists alike while challenging the validity of trying to keep the two categories sharply distinct. Arguing, after Barthes, that the same desire to write animates both, she makes literature theoretical, theory literary, and the reader excited to be in the presence of the two in dialogue. | |
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