Simone De Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

Klappentext A full-length study of Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood. Zusammenfassung This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays. Ursula Tidd offers readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Becoming the Self: 1. Pyrrhus et Cinéas and Pour une morale de l'ambiguité; 2. Le Deuxième Sexe; Part II. Writing the Life: 3. Narratives of self-representation; 4. Negotiating autobiography; 5. Writing the self - Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée; 6. Bearing witness with the Other, bearing witness for the Other; 7. Writing the Other; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ursula Tidd, Ursula (University of Salford) Tidd, Tidd Ursula
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sheringham (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521034500
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03450-0
• Pagine: 268
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata