The Unintended Reader
Feminism and Manon Lescaut
Naomi Segal(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 14. August 1986
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Hardback
349 pages
978-0-521-30723-9 (ISBN)
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Description
This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in the fields of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It has two principal aims: to analyse this story of a young man's passion for a femme fatale as it is presented by the narrator; and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates. The volume is in three parts. In Part I, Dr Segal offers a close reading of Manon Lescaut in which the narrator's relationship with language is the key issue. Part II considers four central themes which are present in the text's language and structure: money, the image of the woman, the concept of the double, and fatality. In the final part the author presents a feminist critique of Freud and Lacan, and develops thereby a fascinating version of the Oedipus Complex which is brought to bear on Manon Lescaut.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-30723-9 (9780521307239)
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Content
Acknowledgements; Note on references; Introduction; Part I. Prose pour Des Greieux: 1. In which we meet Des Greieux and he meets Manon; 3. In which Des Grieux practises to deceive; 4. In which Des Greieux parts from father and fatherland; 5. Love and death in America; Part II. Themes: 6. Money; 7. The woman; 8. Doubles; 9. Fatality; Part III. Theory: 10. Freud: Lacan; 11. Manon; Notes; Bibliography; Translations of the passages in French; Index.