Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference
Nathalie Sarraute, initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, is now regarded as a major French novelist in her own right. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre—her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings—by focusing on the crucial issue of difference that emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds, including questions of gender and genre.
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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference
Nathalie Sarraute, initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, is now regarded as a major French novelist in her own right. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre—her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings—by focusing on the crucial issue of difference that emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds, including questions of gender and genre.
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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference

Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference

by Ann Jefferson
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference

Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference

by Ann Jefferson

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Nathalie Sarraute, initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, is now regarded as a major French novelist in her own right. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre—her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings—by focusing on the crucial issue of difference that emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds, including questions of gender and genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521027267
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/22/2006
Series: Cambridge Studies in French , #64
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile: 1690L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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.
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