The pleasures of the text : Violette Leduc and reader seduction / Elizabeth Locey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locey, Elizabeth, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leduc, Violette, 1907-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Leduc, Violette.

Leduc, Violette, 1907-1972.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

This provocative reading of 'scandalous' French woman writer Violette Leduc--heralded as a great by Beauvoir, Sartre, Genet, Camus--erodes the divide between body and text in erotic literature. In The Pleasures of the Text Elizabeth Locey sets herself the task of pinning down the often slippery ways in which pleasure is mapped onto the body of the reader, and she confronts and challenges the philosophical debate between pornography and erotica

Contents:

Part 1 Of Reader Seduction

I. The Seductions of Reading: "Emma Bovary" and Roland Barthes 13

II. Cycles of Seduction I: Violette Leduc, Reading, and Writing 27

III. Cycles of Seduction II: Rene de Ceccatty and Michele Zackheim 51

Part 2 Seducing the Reader

IV. Jeux Interdits: Reading Leduc's Erotic Touch 65

V. Through the Looking Glass: Reading Leduc's Erotic Look 83

VI. Invitation au Voyage: Reading Leduc's Erotic Voice 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.

ISBN:

0742515265

0742515273

OCLC:

47927719