Never Say I - Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

Informationen zum Autor Michael Lucey Klappentext Literary study that focuses on how early-20th-century French writers (Gide, Collette and Proust) used first-person narrative to explore questions of sexuality and group identity. Zusammenfassung Rereads the works of Colette! Gide! and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Referring to Same-Sex Sexualities in the First Person 1 1. Gide, Bourget, and Proust Talking 29 2. Questions of Register in and around 1902 57 3. Colette, the Moulin Rouge, and Les Vrilles 94 4. Gide and Posterity 165 5. Proust’s Queer Metalepses 193 6. Sodom and Gomorrah: Proust’s Narrator’s First Person 215 Epilogue 250 Notes 259 Works Cited 303 Index 317

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lucey, Michael Lucey
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.11.2006
• EAN: 9780822338574
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3857-4
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Series Q; Series Q
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata