Author(s): Ann Jefferson
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 230
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
PART 1 Difference and human relations......Page 31
‘DIFFÉRENCES’ AND ‘DIFFÉRENDS’......Page 33
DIFFERENCE DENIED......Page 43
BEYOND COMPARE......Page 50
SELF AND OTHER......Page 55
DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS......Page 68
ABJECTION......Page 76
WORDS......Page 78
SCENES OF NARRATION......Page 83
ART......Page 86
PART II The body and sexual difference......Page 93
CHAPTER FOUR Minds, bodies and the new unanimism......Page 95
PSYCHOLOGY......Page 97
REPRESENTATION......Page 103
WRITING......Page 107
WOMEN, HUMAN BEINGS AND WRITING......Page 112
GENDER AND THE GAZE......Page 117
WOMEN WRITERS......Page 121
IDENTIFICATIONS......Page 125
PART III Genre and difference......Page 133
GENERIC DIFFERENCES......Page 135
AUTHORITY, HERESY AND READING......Page 140
STRATEGIES FOR CONTACT......Page 149
CRITICISM AND/AS FICTION......Page 154
FICTION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY......Page 161
VARIATIONS: REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE......Page 172
INTERNAL BREACHES......Page 179
PART IV Conclusion......Page 185
Death and the impossible difference......Page 187
INTRODUCTION......Page 199
1 DIFFERENCE AND DISSENSION......Page 201
2 SUBJECTIVITY AND INDISTINCTION......Page 203
4 MINDS, BODIES AND THE NEW UNANIMISM......Page 205
5 SEXUAL INDIFFERENCE......Page 208
6 CRITICISM AND ‘THE TERRIBLE DESIRE’ TO ESTABLISH CONTACT......Page 211
7 SAME DIFFERENCE: REPRISE AND VARIATION......Page 213
CONCLUSION: DEATH AND THE IMPOSSIBLE DIFFERENCE......Page 215
PROSE......Page 217
INTERVIEWS WITH NATHALIE SARRAUTE CITED......Page 218
CRITICAL STUDIES OF NATHALIE SARRAUTE......Page 219
OTHER LITERARY TEXTS......Page 223
GENERAL......Page 224
Index......Page 227
