Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras : Love, Legends, Language

The first comprehensive study of the narrative and stylistic characteristics of all of Marguerite Duras' major works. Through close textual readings with a particular focus on women's access to language, this book shows how Duras critiques and subverts dominant discourse. Duras' textual strategies are described within a discussion of narrativity which also addresses factors of race and class. Cohen demonstrates how Duras achieves the famous ritual atmosphere of her prose through precise techniques which connect to her critique of representation. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 “Ignorance” and Textuality....Pages 15-55 Intertextualities....Pages 56-102 Sleeping Beauties: Discourse, Gender, Genre in the “Erotic” Texts....Pages 103-130 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 Elements of a Style....Pages 133-176 Legends....Pages 177-208 Conclusion....Pages 209-210 Back Matter....Pages 211-239