In language and in love : Marguerite Duras: the unspeakable

In language and in love : Marguerite Duras: the unspeakable

  • Author: Cranston, Mechthild (ed.)
  • Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
  • Serie: French Literature
  • ISBN: 0916379973
  • Place of publication:  Potomac , United States
  • Year of publication: 1992
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English

This collection of eight critical essays on the modern French novelist (selected from a session devoted to her at the 1991 MLA meeting) employs contemporary theory to examine "the unspeakable" in relation to postmodern (and classical) issues of desire and language: textuality, selfhood, femininity, psychoanalysis, madness, ontology, and mythology.

  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I: DAME DURAS: BREAKING THROUGH THE TEXT
  • II: ELLE EST UNE AUTRE: THE DUPLICITY OF SELF IN L'AMANT
  • III: THE UNSPEAKABLE HEROINE OF EMILY L
  • IV: LOSS, ABANDONMENT, AND LOVE: THE EGO IN EXILE
  • V: BATTAMBANG: THE UNNAMABLE
  • VI: DURAS' 'LAUGHING CURE' FOR LACAN'S HYSTERICAL LACK
  • VII: MEMORY AS ONTOLOGICAL DISRUPTION: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR AS A POSTMODERN WORK
  • VIII: IMAGINATION INTO MYTH: LOVE (LANGUAGE) AS MADNESS IN PLATO AND DURAS
  • SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

By subscribing, you accept our Privacy Policy