TY - BOOK AU - Lucey,Michael TI - Someone: the pragmatics of misfit sexualities, from Colette to Herv�e Guibert SN - 9780226606354 AV - PQ307.H6 L834 2019eb U1 - 840.9/353 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - French literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Litt�erature fran�caise KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Homosexualit�e dans la litt�erature KW - Sexualit�e dans la litt�erature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - French KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro; Contents; Introduction: Roadmap to Someone; 1. Colette and (Un)intelligibility; 2. Sexuality and the Literary Field; 3. Metapragmatics, Sexuality, and the Novel: Reading Jean Genet's Querelle; 4. Simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality in the Third Person; 5. The Contexts of Marguerite Duras's Homophobia; 6. Multivariable Social Acrobatics and Misfit Counterpublics: Violette Leduc and Herv�e Guibert; 7. The Talk of the Town: Sexuality in Three Pinget Novels; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - This text explores a set of works from modern French literature that are interested in same-sex sexualities, but versions of those sexualities that fail to correspond to mainstream gay and lesbian identities in a variety of different ways that can be difficult to notice or talk about. The work's seven chapters trace the introduction of the topic of non-mainstream or misfit sexualities into the French literary field UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1941180 ER -