| Description |
x, 208 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Elizabeth Fallaize -- Readings of The Second Sex. Rereading The Second Sex / Judith Okely. Sex and gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex / Judith Butler. Beauvoir: the weight of situation / Sonia Kruks. 'Independent women' and 'Narratives of liberation' / Toril Moi. The master-slave dialectic in The Second Sex / Eva Lundgren-Gothlin -- Readings of the autobiography. The father in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Francis Jeanson. Murdering the mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Alex Hughes. Encounters with death in A Very Easy Death and The body in decline in Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre / Elaine Marks -- Readings of the fiction. Self-encounter in She Came to Stay / Hazel Barnes. She Came to Stay: the phallus strikes back / Jane Heath. Mythical discourse in 'The Woman Destroyed' / Anne Ophir. Narrative strategies and sexual politics in Beauvoir's fiction / Elizabeth Fallaize |
| Summary |
"Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader is an invaluable collection of critical texts on Simon de Beauvoir's work, as a feminist, a novelist and an autiobiographer. It includes key essays examining her fiction, her writings on her life and her most famous work, The Second Sex, by an outstanding list of contributors"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index |
| Subject |
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Author |
Fallaize, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
97044992 |
| ISBN |
0415147026 |
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0415147034 |
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