Duras, Marguerite - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Cousineau, Diane. “The Image and the Word, History and Memory in the Photographic Age: Marguerite Duras's The Lover.” Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/Cultural Codes, pp. 128-68. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.

A postmodern feminist examination of Duras's use of the photographic image in The Lover.

Le Sage, Laurent. “Marguerite Duras.” The French New Novel: An Introduction and a Sampler, pp. 85-91. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962.

Briefly examines Duras's works that fall into the nouveau roman category.

Thormann, Janet. “Feminine Masquerade in L'Amant: Duras with Lacan.” Literature and Psychology XXXX, No. 4 (1994): 28-39.

Provides a Lacanian analysis of The Lover, noting that “to read … L'amant through Lacanian theory is to foreground the movement of desire...

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