Author

Publication

2001-08-01 - Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter

Language

English

Word Count

55,750 words, Guess

Page Count

223 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCPQ149 .R94 2001
  • LCCPQ307.W6R94 2001

Description

"Drawing creatively on major theorists from French and Anglo-American feminisms through psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology to contemporary literary theory, the author articulates reading as a process of change. Relations between text and reader, individual and collective identities, self and other, are thought through in a sustained development of a politics of reading based on the model of the dialogue. Without losing sight of diversity and subjectivity in reading, this book explores the transformative potential of literature through themes of loss, maternity and difference in original readings of some post-1980 French fiction. Anglophone readers are introduced to the rich oeuvre of Christiane Baroche and to the accessible yet thought-provoking novels of Paule Constant (winner of the 1998 prix Goncourt) as well as to new critical analyses of Helene Cixous's later fictions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Reading for Change: Interactions Between Text and Indentity in Contemporary French Women's Writing (Baroche, Cixous, Constant) (Modern French Identities, V. 9)PaperbackLang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter2001-08-01

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