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The Pleasures of the Text: Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction - Paperback

The Pleasures of the Text: Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Locey (Author)

This provocative reading of 'scandalous' French woman writer Violette Leduc-heralded as a great by Beauvoir, Sartre, Genet, Camus-erodes the divide between body and text in erotic literature. In The Pleasures of the Text Elizabeth Locey sets herself the task of pinning down the often slippery ways in which pleasure is mapped onto the body of the reader, and she confronts and challenges the philosophical debate between pornography and erotica

Author Biography

Elizabeth Locey is assistant professor of French at Emporia State University.

Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.92 x 5.88 IN
Publication Date: January 15, 2002