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Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras: Love, Legends, Language

By Susan D. Cohen (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1993
ISBN
978-1-349-12928-7, 978-1-349-12926-3
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-12926-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (24063270 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 239\245
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
European Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature;

Description

The first comprehensive study of the narrative and stylistic characteristics of all of Marguerite Duras' major works. Through close textual readings with a particular focus on women's access to language, this book shows how Duras critiques and subverts dominant discourse. Duras' textual strategies are described within a discussion of narrativity which also addresses factors of race and class. Cohen demonstrates how Duras achieves the famous ritual atmosphere of her prose through precise techniques which connect to her critique of representation.

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