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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ann Jefferson
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Series | Cambridge Studies in French |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:232 | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - from c 1900 - Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521027267
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Classifications | Dewey:843.914 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
22 June 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her own distinctive concerns. In this major 2000 study of Sarraute, the first in English since her death, Ann Jefferson offers a fresh perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her novels, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings - by focusing on the crucial issue of difference which emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre. She argues that difference is simultaneously asserted and denied in Sarraute's work, and that the notion of difference, so often celebrated by other writers and thinkers, is shown in Sarraute's work to the inseparable from ambiguity and anxiety.
Reviews'... innumerable insights and illuminations offered by this important book which no Sarraute scholar will want to be without.' Modern Language Review
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