Robbe-Grillet and modernity : science, sexuality, and subversion /

Robbe-Grillet and modernity : science, sexuality, and subversion / Raylene L. Ramsay.

"Featuring two remarkable first-person interviews with the major contemporary French man of letters, this work investigates the relationships between Alain Robbe-Grillet's experimental writing (novels, picto-novels, autofictions, films, and essays) and developments in a number of fields of...

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Main Author: Ramsay, Raylene L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1992.
Series:University of Florida monographs. Humanities ; 66.
Subjects:
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, > 1922-2008 > Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and science > France > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > France.
Sex in literature.
Deconstruction.
Simmons University authors. Ramsay, Raylene L.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • (starting p. 1)
  • 1
  • Toward the Sense(s) of Science: Of "Complementarity"
  • (starting p. 7)
  • 2
  • Configurations of Modernite
  • (starting p. 43)
  • 3
  • The Modernity of Myth: From Oedipus to Andromeda
  • (starting p. 83)
  • 4
  • Myths of Woman, or the Sadist and the Siren
  • (starting p. 110)
  • 5
  • The Sense(s) of Sado-Eroticism in Robbe-Grillet's Films
  • (starting p. 145)
  • 6
  • The Eroticization of Power or the Power of the Erotic?
  • (starting p. 169)
  • 7
  • The Uses and Abuses of Enchantment
  • (starting p. 205)
  • Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • (starting p. 243)
  • An Identikit Portrait
  • (starting p. 244)
  • Sex, Text, and Criminal Project
  • (starting p. 247)
  • Notes
  • (starting p. 253)
  • Works by Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • (starting p. 271)
  • Selected Bibliography
  • (starting p. 275)
  • Index
  • (starting p. 289)

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