| Description |
viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : on mortality and natality / Richard E. Goodkin and Elaine Marks -- Pt. 1. Life writing death -- "Juifemmes" / Evelyn T. Beck and Richard E. Goodkin -- "Memoirs of an indocile daughter" : encounters with Elaine Marks / Martine Debaisieux -- The story of a woman's life in and through time / Isabelle De Courtivron -- Pt. 2. Death of the other, death of the mother -- The disease of monolingualism / Nelly Furman -- As she lay dying : writing and the mother/daughter dynamic in Beauvoir and Ernaux / Annie Jouan-Westlund -- Childless children : bodies and betrayal / Nancy K. Miller -- Jacques's complaint : Derrida, mortality, and the maternal / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Pt. 3. Geographies of life and death -- Ronsard on speed : "ciel, air, & vens ..." / Tom Conley -- The art of finding : reading as (a very easy) death / Susan S. Lanser -- Pt. 4. Signing off : the individual lost and regained -- The feminine signature : Saint-Simon, Elaine Marks, and the Esprit Mortemart / David Harrison -- Moribondages : reading Proust and La Bruyere with(out) Elaine / Richard E. Goodkin -- Teaching mourning and desire in French literature / Elaine Marks |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) |
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"Bibliography of Elaine Marks": pages 241-243 |
| Subject |
Marks, Elaine.
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Death in literature.
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Marks, Elaine.
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Goodkin, Richard E.
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| LC no. |
2006031478 |
| ISBN |
0299222306 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780299222307 cloth alkaline paper |
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