In Memory Of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death Project Muse Upcc Books

A widely recognized and respected authority on French literature, women's writing, feminist theory, and Jewish studies, Elaine Marks wrote groundbreaking books on Collette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jewish themes in French literature. In Memory of Elaine Marks continues her legacy of rigorous intellectual exploration, enlivening scholarship in diverse areas of thought. The eleven essays in the collection bring together a number of intellectual, political, and ethical domains that were central to Marks's work: pedagogy, feminism, lesbianism, women's auto/biography, Jewish identity, community, memory, mourning, isolation, and death. In their interpretations of works by Marks, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Philip Roth, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Saint-Simon, La Bruyère, Marcel Proust, and others, the authors illustrate and engage Marks's existential vision, fearlessly probing the human experience to make sense of how we live, die, and understand both. Introduction : On Mortality And Natality / Richard E. Goodkin And Elaine Marks -- Pt. 1. Life Writing Death -- Juifemmes / Evelyn T. Beck And Richard E. Goodkin -- Memoirs Of An Indocile Daughter : Encounters With Elaine Marks / Martine Debaisieux -- The Story Of A Woman’s Life In And Through Time / Isabelle De Courtivron -- Pt. 2. Death Of The Other, Death Of The Mother -- The Disease Of Monolingualism / Nelly Furman -- As She Lay Dying : Writing And The Mother/daughter Dynamic In Beauvoir And Ernaux / Annie Jouan-westlund -- Childless Children : Bodies And Betrayal / Nancy K. Miller -- Jacques’s Complaint : Derrida, Mortality, And The Maternal / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Pt. 3. Geographies Of Life And Death -- Ronsard On Speed : Ciel, Air, & Vens ... / Tom Conley -- The Art Of Finding : Reading As (a Very Easy) Death / Susan S. Lanser -- Pt. 4. Signing Off : The Individual Lost And Regained -- The Feminine Signature : Saint-simon, Elaine Marks, And The Esprit Mortemart / David Harrison -- Moribondages : Reading Proust And La Bruyere With(out) Elaine / Richard E. Goodkin -- Teaching Mourning And Desire In French Literature / Elaine Marks. Edited By Richard E. Goodkin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 245-253). Bibliography Of Elaine Marks: P. 241-243. Presents a collection of eleven essays which bring together a number of intellectual, political, and ethical domains that were central to Elaine Marks' work: pedagogy, feminism, lesbianism, women's auto/biography, Jewish identity, community, memory, mourning, isolation, and death.