Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-,

Subversive intent : gender, politics, and the avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman. - xviii, 276 pages ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

1. A Double Margin: Women Writers and the Avant-Garde in France -- 2. Aggressions and Counteraggressions: Readability in Avant-Garde Fiction -- 3. Reading Robbe-Grillet: Sadism and Text in 'Projet pour une vevolution a New York' -- 4. Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's 'Histoire de l'oeil' -- 5. Love Stories: Women, Madness, and Narrative -- 6. The Politics and Poetics of Female Eroticism -- 7. Feminist Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother -- 8. Feminism and Postmodernism: In Lieu of and Ending

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French literature--History and criticism--20th century
Literature, Experimental--History and criticism
Feminism and literature--History--20th century
Women and literature--History--20th century
Erotic literature--History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)
Social norms in literature
Sex role in literature

PQ307.E95 / S85 1990