Literary Critics of French - Emma Wilson, Sylvia Huot, Charles Ruas, Jacques DuBois, Malcolm Bowie, Roger Pearson, Eric Robertson, Sarah Kay (Paperback)

Chapters: Emma Wilson, Sylvia Huot, Charles Ruas, Jacques Dubois, Malcolm Bowie, Roger Pearson, Eric Robertson, Sarah Kay, Simon Gaunt, Alain Viala, Clive Scott, Bill Burgwinkle, Leslie Hill, Lisa Downing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emma Wilson (born 1967) is a British academic and writer, specializing in French literature and cinema. She is a Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is currently head of the French department at Cambridge. Emma Wilson is the daughter of novelist Jacqueline Wilson.. She was a scholarship student at Surbiton High School and then studied French and Latin as an undergraduate at Cambridge. She then stayed on to do a PhD in the French department. Her thesis was entitled The pain of the pleasure of the text: Tournier, reading and sexuality. Wilson then got a post as a university lecturer in Cambridge. As a researcher, Wilson is author of five books and over twenty articles published in scholarly journals in the field of modern languages and film. Her published work includes book studies of Alain Resnais and Krzysztof Kieslowski as well as specific work on writers such as Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Michel Tournier. As well as her contribution to these author fields, however, Wilson's writing has applications to critical theory. In her 1996 work, Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Wilson makes a contribution to reader response theory in relation to feminism and queer theory. She argues for the potential for change in the reader's identity through reading. The encounter between reader and text, she says, depends "not on pre-constructed identities, but on the very performance of identity in the process of r...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1683595