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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Simone de Beauvoir; Simone Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toril Moi |
ISBN: | 9780199238712 0199238715 9780199238729 0199238723 |
OCLC Number: | 237238814 |
Notes: | Previous edition: Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. |
Description: | XII, 349 Seiten |
Contents: | Second only to Sartre -- The making of an intellectual woman -- Politics and the intellectual woman : clichés and commonplaces in the reception of Simone de Beauvoir -- L'Invitée : an existentialist melodrama -- Freedom and flirtation : the personal and the philosophical in Sartre and Beauvoir -- Ambiguous women : alienation and the body in The second sex -- Beauvoir's utopia : the politics of The second sex -- The scandal of loneliness and separation : the writing of depression. |
Responsibility: | Toril Moi. |
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a landmark study on Simone de Beauvoir...a pivotal work for study of Beauvoir's autobiographical oeuvre * Susan Bainbridge, Modern and Contemporary France * Moi's brilliant analysis of her subject is de Beauvoir criticism at its very best, demonstrating that the richly stimulating text of Simone de Beauvoir deserves to be widely and well read. * Ursula Tidd, THES * Read more...
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