Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory - Questions of Difference

Klappentext Major study of one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and theorists. Zusammenfassung This 2000 book on Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99), one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists, was the first major study in English to appear since her death. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Difference and Human Relations: 1. Difference and dissension; 2. Subjectivity and indistinction; 3. Abjection into art; Part II. The Body and Sexual Difference: 4. Minds, bodies and the new unanimism; 5. Sexual indifference; Part III. Genre and Difference: 6. Criticism and 'the terrible desire to establish contact'; 7. Same difference: reprise and variation; Conclusion: death and the impossible difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jefferson Ann, Ann Jefferson, Ann (New College Jefferson
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521027267
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02726-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form