| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages). |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in French ; 64 |
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Cambridge studies in French ; 64.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
I. Difference and Human Relations -- 1. Difference and dissension -- 2. Subjectivity and indistinction -- 3. Abjection into art -- II. The Body and Sexual Difference -- 4. Minds, bodies and the new unanimism -- 5. Sexual indifference -- III. Genre and Difference -- 6. Criticism and 'the terrible desire to establish contact' -- 7. Same difference; reprise and variation -- IV. Conclusion -- Death and the impossible difference. |
| Summary |
"In this study of Sarraute, Ann Jefferson offers a fresh perspective on Sarraute's oeuvre - her novels, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings - by focusing on the crucial issue of difference which emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence towards differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre. She argues that difference is simultaneously asserted and denied in Sarraute's work, and that the notion of difference, so often celebrated by other writers and thinkers, is shown in Sarraute's work to be inseparable from ambiguity and anxiety."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Sarraute, Nathalie -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sarraute, Nathalie, 1902- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sarraute, Nathalie. (OCoLC)fst00004867
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Sarraute, Nathalie.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jefferson, Ann. Nathalie Sarraute, fiction and theory. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521772117 (DLC) 99048651 (OCoLC)42475756 |
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