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The Pleasures of the Text
Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction
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2002
Summary
Why was Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle not published in its entirety until November 2000? Under threat of scandal and obsenity charges, French publisher Gallimard withheld the novel, but Leduc continued to write of her life as a woman writer in wartime Paris, frankly depicting her own and imagined lesbian experiences. Mentored by Simone de Beauvoir and a contemporary of French twentieth-century luminaries Sartre, Camus, Genet, and Cocteau, Leduc is, however, known best as France's great unknown writer. In The Pleasures of the Text, Elizabeth Locey restores Leduc to her rightful place in the canon, bringing to light her singular and important contributions to contemporary literary theory. Locey reads Leduc's works from the perspective of reader seduction, which erodes the divide between body and text. Situating Leduc within a continuum with Emma Bovary and Roland Barthes at its extremes, Locey investigates Leduc's use of the erotic touch, look, and voice to seduce her readers. More than an accessible introduction to an overlooked writer, The Pleasures of the Text confronts and challenges the philosophical debate between pornography and erotica and pins down some of the often slippery ways pleasure is mapped onto the body of the reader.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1526-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-0519-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
193
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
I. The Seductions of Reading: "Emma Bovary" and Roland Barthes No access
II. Cycles of Seduction I: Violette Leduc, Reading, and Writing No access
III. Cycles of Seduction II: René de Ceccatty and Michele Zackheim No access
IV. Jeux Interdits: Reading Leduc's Erotic Touch No access
V. Through the Looking Glass: Reading Leduc's Erotic Look No access
VI. Invitation Au Voyage: Reading Leduc's Erotic Voice No access
Conclusion No access Pages 123 - 126
Appendix No access Pages 127 - 154
Notes No access Pages 155 - 174
Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted No access Pages 175 - 184
