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Skirting the issue : essays in literary theory / Mary Lydon.

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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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Main Author: Lydon, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ℗♭1995.
Subjects:
French literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Feminism and literature > France > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > France > History > 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature) > France.
Feminism and literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Women and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The critical self: Homework
  • Calling yourself a woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette
  • Myself and M/others: Colette, Wilde, and Duchamp
  • 2. From dress to text: Pli selon pli: Proust and Fortuny
  • Skirting the issue: Mallarme, Proust, and symbolism
  • 3. A reader's discourse: The forgetfulness of memory: Jacques Lacan, Marguerite Duras, and the text
  • Hats and cocktails: Simone de Beauvoir's heady texts
  • "Here's looking at you, kid!": toast a Marcel Duchamp
  • The story of Adele H.; or, The insistence of the letter
  • 4. The procession of theory: Amplification: Barthes, Freud, and paranoia
  • Drawing the line: writing, representation, and the postmodern
  • What is your pleasure?
  • Foucault and feminism: a romance of many dimensions
  • 5. Writing/translating: The mother tongue: the case of Samuel Beckett.

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