The Unintended Reader : Feminism and Manon Lescaut
by
Naomi Segal
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in French
ISBN-10
0521307236
ISBN-13
9780521307239
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 14th, 1986
Print length
349 Pages
Weight
56 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism.
This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in the fields of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It has two principal aims: to analyse this story of a young man''s passion for a femme fatale as it is presented by the narrator; and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates. The volume is in three parts. In Part I, Dr Segal offers a close reading of Manon Lescaut in which the narrator''s relationship with language is the key issue. Part II considers four central themes which are present in the text''s language and structure: money, the image of the woman, the concept of the double, and fatality. In the final part the author presents a feminist critique of Freud and Lacan, and develops thereby a fascinating version of the Oedipus Complex which is brought to bear on Manon Lescaut.
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