Excess and Transgression in Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction
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Author_Alison Holland
Beauvoir
Beauvoir Criticism
Beauvoir's Fiction
Beauvoir's Text
Beauvoir's Writing
Beauvoir’s Fiction
Beauvoir’s Text
Beauvoir’s Writing
belles
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De Discretion
Elaine Marks
elizabeth
Elizabeth Fallaize
emotional prose analysis
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fallaize
feminist literary criticism
femme
gender and language
Gothic Conventions
Gothic Motifs
Il Ne
images
Imperfect Tense
Interior Monologue
La Chose
La Femme Rompue
La Mort
La Terre
les
Les Belles Images
Les Mandarins
madness representation in literature
mandarins
moi
narrative disruption
Past Tense
patriarchal ideology critique
Perfect Tense
rompue
Semiotic Energy
Sexual Textual Politics
Simone De Beauvoir
toril
Toril Moi
twentieth-century French literature
Product details
- ISBN 9780754651529
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Alison Holland’s innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer’s frequently neglected novels and short stories, L’Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme rompue. In illuminating the density and rich complexity of Beauvoir’s style, Holland challenges the often accepted view that Beauvoir’s writing is flat, detached, and controlled, revealing, rather, that her prose is frequently disrupted and inflected by forceful emotion. Holland shows that excess and transgression are intrinsic qualities of the texts, and argues that Beauvoir’s textual strategies duplicate madness in her fiction. Holland’s reading of Beauvoir’s fiction demonstrates the extent to which Beauvoir’s fiction undermines an ideologically patriarchal position on language. Her study is important not only for its re-evaluation of Beauvoir as a fiction writer but for its contribution to the wider debate on madness and literature.
Dr. Alison Holland, Associate Dean for Student Wellbeing, formerly Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Principal Lecturer in French, Northumbria University, UK
