Violette Leduc
Most analyses of Violette Leduc’s writing have concentrated on its autobiographical dimension, dealing almost exclusively with her best known volume, La Bâtarde. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language offers readings of three less familiar first-person narratives — L’Asphyxie, Ravages, and Th...
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| description | Most analyses of Violette Leduc’s writing have concentrated on its autobiographical dimension, dealing almost exclusively with her best known volume, La Bâtarde. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language offers readings of three less familiar first-person narratives — L’Asphyxie, Ravages, and Thérèse et Isabelle - and approaches them not as fragments of a multi-faceted autobiographical corpus, but rather as autonomous works of fiction. This study, which reads Leduc’s narratives from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, has a double focus. Part One scrutinizes the intricacies of her treatment of feminine bonding, seeking to bring new insights - inspired inter alia by theorists such as Melanie Klein, Freud and Luce Irigaray to bear on her representations of mother/daughter and lesbian relations. Part Two examines Leduc’s use of language in Thérèse et Isabelle, probing the extent to which this novella contains examples of feminist and/or ‘feminine’ discourse. By exploring Leduc’s lyrical evocation of feminine homosexuality from both a gender-related and a more traditional, formalist standpoint, the writer exposes the limitations of a purely feminist approach to her work. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language focuses on those elements of Leduc’s writing which look forward, however instinctively, to the complex investigations of gender and language produced by French feminist theorists in recent decades, and illuminates the degree to which it is ‘recuperable’ for feminism. This book, originally published in paperback in 1994 under the ISBN 978-0-901286-41-3, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1479342025-01-24T14:45:57Z Violette Leduc Hughes, Alex Drama Women Authors thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDF France thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050::3MRBF c 2010 to c 2019 Most analyses of Violette Leduc’s writing have concentrated on its autobiographical dimension, dealing almost exclusively with her best known volume, La Bâtarde. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language offers readings of three less familiar first-person narratives — L’Asphyxie, Ravages, and Thérèse et Isabelle - and approaches them not as fragments of a multi-faceted autobiographical corpus, but rather as autonomous works of fiction. This study, which reads Leduc’s narratives from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, has a double focus. Part One scrutinizes the intricacies of her treatment of feminine bonding, seeking to bring new insights - inspired inter alia by theorists such as Melanie Klein, Freud and Luce Irigaray to bear on her representations of mother/daughter and lesbian relations. Part Two examines Leduc’s use of language in Thérèse et Isabelle, probing the extent to which this novella contains examples of feminist and/or ‘feminine’ discourse. By exploring Leduc’s lyrical evocation of feminine homosexuality from both a gender-related and a more traditional, formalist standpoint, the writer exposes the limitations of a purely feminist approach to her work. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language focuses on those elements of Leduc’s writing which look forward, however instinctively, to the complex investigations of gender and language produced by French feminist theorists in recent decades, and illuminates the degree to which it is ‘recuperable’ for feminism. This book, originally published in paperback in 1994 under the ISBN 978-0-901286-41-3, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme. 2024-11-16T05:07:12Z 2024-11-16T05:07:12Z 2024-11-15T10:32:05Z 1994 book ONIX_20241115_9781839546754_38 09570322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94720 9781839546754 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147934 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94720/1/9781839546754.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94720/1/9781839546754.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b052d3a 10.59860/td.b052d3a 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546754 Texts and Translations 180 Cambridge open access |
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