The erotics of passage : pleasure, politics and form in the new work of Marguerite Duras

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The erotics of passage : pleasure, politics and form in the new work of Marguerite Duras

James S. Williams

Liverpool University Press, 1997

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A complete account of the fiction, films and media work of Marguerite Duras since the film Le camion (1977). Williams pursues a variety of theoretical approaches - psychoanalytic, comparative, rhetorical, intertextual - emphasizing in each case the formal pleasures of Duras's work.

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. The Daisy Chain 2. Le systeme D.: Le camion 3. Every Which Way but Loose: Duras and the Erotic Crimes of Montage 4. Midnight Tales of Great Men: Error, Intertextuality, and ecriture courante 5. All Her Sons: Duras, Anti-literature, and the Outside 6. Sublime, forcement sublime Marguerite D.? Sex, Lies, and Politics in the Real 7. M.D./'Y.A., homosexuel': Literary Collaboration and the Sexual Cure Notes Bibliography List of Works Cited Index

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