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Nathalie Sarraute, fiction and theory : questions of difference

Author: Ann Jefferson
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series: Cambridge studies in French, 64.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Named Person: Nathalie Sarraute; Nathalie Sarraute; Nathalie Sarraute; Nathalie Sarraute; Nathalie Sarraute
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ann Jefferson
ISBN: 0521772117 9780521772112
OCLC Number: 42475756
Description: xiii, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in French, 64.
Responsibility: Ann Jefferson.
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Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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