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Intersexual Rivalry: A 'Reading in Pairs' of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Waters, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906763749 ISBN-13: 9783906763743 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2000 Click for more in this series: Studien Zu Zeitgeschichte Und Sicherheitspolitik |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
Dewey: 843.912 |
LCCN: 99052094 |
Series: Studien Zu Zeitgeschichte Und Sicherheitspolitik |
Physical Information: 228 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet are two of the most prominent and influential writers of mid- to late-twentieth-century France. Not only has their constant questioning of the conventions of traditional, realist literature reflected the major preoccupations of recent avant-garde literary history, but their ground-breaking works have also been central to the creation and development of some of the most powerful critical theories of the period. Critics have tended to study Duras and Robbe-Grillet within the largely mutually exclusive theoretical discourses of feminism and structuralism, so overlooking the extensive and fruitful areas of common ground between them. This book uncovers evidence of a career-long intersexual literary rivalry between the two writers, which reached a peak following the phenomenal success of Duras's L'Amant in 1984. By reading together chronological pairs of novels by Duras and Robbe-Grillet from throughout their parallel careers, the author sheds new light on both writers' works, rethinks certain received critical assumptions, and offers a new model, 'reading in pairs', for the study of male and female writers. |
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