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This study asks, ""What is the relation of criticism to literature?"", ""What does it mean to call oneself a woman?"", and ""What does a (feminine) coming to writing imply?"". Lydon identifies with some French literary theorists.
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Mary Lydon s essays are unique in their ability to absorb a profound understanding of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, and other French theorists into the very fabric of her critical readings. In these brilliant essays on Proust and Beckett, on Duras and Duchamp, and on feminist subjects, theory is always at the service of the most sensitive elucidation of difficult material. An original and delightful collection! Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University" "Mary Lydon's essays are unique in their ability to absorb a profound understanding of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, and other French theorists into the very fabric of her critical readings. In these brilliant essays on Proust and Beckett, on Duras and Duchamp, and on feminist subjects, theory is always at the service of the most sensitive elucidation of difficult material. An original and delightful collection!"--Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
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Identifying with a series of French literary theorists, she adopts their manner rather than their putative 'method' as she responds to selected French artists and writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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- PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0299144607
- ISBN 13 9780299144609
- BindingHardcover
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