In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: On Mortality and Natality   Richard E. Goodkin   Elaine Marks     3
Life Writing Death
"Juifemmes"   Evelyn T. Beck   Richard E. Goodkin     15
"Memoirs of an Indocile Daughter": Encounters with Elaine Marks   Martine Debaisieux   Richard E. Goodkin     31
The Story of a Woman's Life in and through Time   Isabelle de Courtivron     57
Death of the Other, Death of the Mother
The Disease of Monolingualism   Nelly Purman     75
As She Lay Dying: Writing and the Mother/Daughter Dynamic in Beauvoir and Ernaux   Annie Jouan-westlund     90
Childless Children: Bodies and Betrayal   Nancy K. Miller     110
Jacques's Complaint: Derrida, Mortality, and the Maternal   Lawrence D. Kritzman     129
Geographies of Life and Death
Ronsard on Speed: "Ciel, air, & vens..."   Tom Conley     147
The Art of Finding: Reading as (a Very Easy) Death   Susan S. Lanser     163
Signing Off: The Individual Lost and Regained
The Feminine Signature: Saint-Simon, Elaine Marks, and the Esprit Mortemart   David Harrison     183
Moribondages: Reading Proust and La Bruyere with(out) Elaine   Richard E. Goodkin     204
Teaching Mourning and Desire in French Literature   Elaine Marks     231
Bibliography   Elaine Marks     241
Works Cited     245
Contributors     255