Pleasures of the Text : Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742515273
ISBN-13
9780742515277
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2002
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
299 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 14.60 x 1.40 cms
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In this volume, Elizabeth Locey restores Leduc to her place in the canon, bringing to light her contributions to contemporary literary theory. Locey reads Leduc's works from the perspective of reader selection, which erodes the divide between body and text.
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
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