Lucey / Barale / Goldberg Never Say I

Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8837-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lucey, Michael

Barale, Michèle Aina

Goldberg, Jonathan

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Referring to Same-Sex Sexualities in the First Person 1

1. Gide, Bourget, and Proust Talking 29

2. Questions of Register in and around 1902 57

3. Colette, the Moulin Rouge, and Les Vrilles 94

4. Gide and Posterity 165

5. Proust’s Queer Metalepses 193

6. Sodom and Gomorrah: Proust’s Narrator’s First Person 215

Epilogue 250

Notes 259

Works Cited 303

Index 317

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Lucey is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality and translator of Didier Eribon’s Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, both also published by Duke University Press.