Colette /
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| Author / Creator: | Kristeva, Julia, 1941- |
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| Uniform title: | Colette. English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2004. |
| Description: | viii, 521 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European perspectives Female genius ; v. 3 Kristeva, Julia, 1941- Génie féminin. English ; v. 3. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5201507 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter 1. Why Colette? she Invented an Alphabet
- Chapter 2. Life or Works?
- From Saint-Sauveur to Willy: An Initiation
- Vagabondage and Social Success: Missy, Sidi, Bel-Gazou
- From Mother-Son Incest to the Consecration of the Mother: Bertrand de Jouvenel and Sido
- A Continual Rebirth
- Two Sides: Money and Writing
- The Idol Cornered by History
- Chapter 3. Writing: Tendrils of the Vine
- The "Large-Limbed" Need to Write
- Tendrils of the Vine in Seven Movements
- Metaphors? No, Metamorphoses
- Two Narrative Registers
- The Imaginary as the Right to Lie
- The Solitude of Music and of Crime
- Chapter 4. Who Is Sido?
- A Slow Apparition
- The Child and the Enchantments: Melanie Klein and Colette
- The Incestual Mother with "One of [Her] Children"
- What a Character!
- Chapter 5. Depression, Perversion, Sublimation
- Freud's Way: Pere-version or Mere-version
- Idealization: Latency and the Superego
- Genitality or Neoreality?
- Succeeding Where the Pervert Exhausts Himself
- Psychopathia Sexualis and Melancholy According to Colette
- Pain, or Colette the Father
- Chapter 6. The Metamorphic Body: Plants, Beasts, and Monsters
- "... My Old Subtle Senses"
- "O Geraniums, O Foxglove ..."
- The Animal, or an Unused Love
- "... If 'Mme Colette' Is Not a Monster, She Is Nothing" (Jean Cocteau)
- From the Death Drive to Decapitation
- Chapter 7. Men and Women, Pure and Impure
- A New Mystic?
- Love Expresses Itself Only in Metaphors
- ... Or, How to Wrest Oneself Away from Love
- From the Woman-Object to Objectless Love
- A Queen of Bisexuality
- Precocious Maturity, or Delicacy According to Mitsou and Gigi
- "... Those Men that Other Men Call Great"
- The Femine Ideal Includes Its Negative
- Mother and Child
- The War Between the Sexes
- "Those Pleasures Thoughtlessly Called Physical ..."
- The Infantile Revisited from the Direction of the Impure
- Which Couple? Or, the Triumph of the Imaginary
- Chapter 8. A Little Politics all the Same
- An Antifeminist
- The Occupation, or the Politics of the Gourmand Ostrich
- Living the Image: From Illustration ...
- ... To Cinema: In Praise of the Imaginary
- Chapter 9. Still Writing, Between Balzac and Proust
- "Balzac, Difficult? He? My Cradle, My Forest, My Journey?"
- Proust? "As in Balzac, I'm Awash in It ... It's Delicious ..."
- Memory and Worthiness
- "Because Writing Leads Only to Writing"
- Chapter 10. Is There a Feminine Genius?
- Simone de Beauvoir: "Situation" and "Individual Opportunities"
- The Two-Faced Oedipus
- Intersections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
