Unintended Reader - Feminism and Manon Lescaut

Klappentext This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. Zusammenfassung This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in psychoanalysis! feminism and literary criticism. It aims to analyse the narrator's presentation of this story of a young man's passion for a femme fatale and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on references; Introduction; Part I. Prose pour Des Greieux: 1. In which we meet Des Greieux and he meets Manon; 3. In which Des Grieux practises to deceive; 4. In which Des Greieux parts from father and fatherland; 5. Love and death in America; Part II. Themes: 6. Money; 7. The woman; 8. Doubles; 9. Fatality; Part III. Theory: 10. Freud: Lacan; 11. Manon; Notes; Bibliography; Translations of the passages in French; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Segal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521159289
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15928-9
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies