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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.

Bibliography: p253-268. - Includes index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Playing and Modernity
  • Pleasures of Theory Metapolylogue: On Playing and Modernity
  • A Double Margin: Women
  • Writers and the Avant-Garde in France Of Margins and Avant-Gardes
  • The Surrealist Subject Women in the History of Surrealism
  • Aggressions and Counteraggressions: Readability in Avant-Garde Fiction
  • Reading and Rupture
  • Robbe-Grillet, or, the Readability of Transgression
  • Maurice Roche: Paradigm Lost and Found
  • Self-Reflexive Afterthought Reading
  • Robbe-Grillet: Sadism and Text in Projet pour une revolution a New York
  • Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's
  • Histoire de l'oeil
  • Pornography as Textuality
  • Pornography as "Reality" Feminist
  • Poetics and the Pornographic
  • Imagination Love Stories: Women, Madness, and Narrative
  • Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora Breton, Charcot, and the Spectacle of Female
  • Otherness Duras/Lacan: Not Knowing as Entanglement
  • The Politics and Poetics of Female Eroticism
  • Equal Rights, or, Telling It with Four-Letter
  • Words Celebrating Difference, or, Writing (and Reading) Otherwise
  • Dreaming beyond the Number Two Feminist
  • Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother
  • Parody and Politics Parody, Perversion, Collage: Surrealists at Play
  • Daughters Playing: Some Feminist Rewritings and the Mother
  • The Hearing Trumpet: Marian Leatherby and the Holy Grail
  • The Laugh of the Mother Feminism and Postmodernism: In Lieu of an Ending Une Histoire Bien Postmoderne
  • Discourses on the Postmodern and the Emergence of Feminist
  • Postmodernism Opposition in Babel?
  • The Political Status of Postmodern Intertextuality
  • To Market, to Market: Oppositional Art in Mass
  • Culture Of Cyborgs and (Other) "Women": The Politics of Decentered Subjects
  • Notes Selected
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Suan Rubin Suleiman, a professor of French at Harvard University, fled from Budapest as a child in 1949. She later returned to Hungary and wrote Budapest Diary as a result. Suleiman has also written feminist texts such as The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives and Subversive Intent: Gender Politics and the Avant-Garde.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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