Appelle Moi Pierrot

Author : Jo Ann Marie Recker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217319

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"Appelle-moi Pierrot" by Jo Ann Marie Recker Pdf

The application of moliéresque critical theory to the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné can contribute to a renewed appreciation of the highly intellectual quality of the comic genius of a "spirituelle marquise," a mother who desperately wanted to entice a distanced daughter to regularity in an epistolary exchange, a woman of wit and irony.

Author : Stephanie A. Sieburth
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217440

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Reading La Regenta by Stephanie A. Sieburth Pdf

Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The narrator is shown to be duplicitous and unreliable in his judgments on characters and events. Without an omniscient narrator, readers must interpret for themselves the complex intertextual structure of the novel. Saints' lives, honor plays, and serial novels each provide partial reflections of Ana Ozores' story. The text becomes a collage of mutually reflecting segments which, like Ana in her moments of self-doubt and madness, ultimately question the function of language and of any overriding interpretation or meaning.

Author : Eleanor Amico
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314033

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Reader's Guide to Women's Studies by Eleanor Amico Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."

Author : Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217505

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Gender and Representation by Lou Charnon-Deutsch Pdf

Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.

Author : Michèle Longino Farrell
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874515378

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Performing Motherhood by Michèle Longino Farrell Pdf

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Author : Susan Petit
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217602

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Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by Susan Petit Pdf

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.

Author : Julie Candler Hayes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217564

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Identity and Ideology by Julie Candler Hayes Pdf

In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole.

Author : Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1556193009

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Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints by Aimée Israel-Pelletier Pdf

Israel Pelletier argues that "Trois contes" demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from "Madame Bovary" and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about langauge and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist reading of "Un Coeur," an assessment of "Saint Julien" as Flaubert's attempt to come to terms with his originality as a writer, and an interpretation of "Herodias" as an autobiography of the writing process.

Author : Anita K. Stoll,Dawn L. Smith
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838754252

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Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age by Anita K. Stoll,Dawn L. Smith Pdf

The essays in this collection provide new material to enable the continuing recuperation of the complex social ambiance that both created and was reflected in the literature of Spain's Golden Age.

Author : J. H. Matthews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217327

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André Breton by J. H. Matthews Pdf

Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he. It provides justification without excuse, especially when the commentator's purpose is to shed light on the intricacies of Breton's mind, the significance of his original work, or the impact of his ideas on twentieth-century culture. Hence the aim pursued in the present study may be stated without further preamble: To attempt to broaden understanding of the evolution of Andr Breton's thinking during a critical period in his life, the one which brought him to leadership of the surrealist movement in France. Evidently, the focus here is narrow, the goal being to give clearer definition to the intellectual state of a young man emerging from doubt--and so from self-doubt--into renewed confidence in his poetic calling.

Author : Michael Vincent
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217645

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Figures of the Text by Michael Vincent Pdf

The works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, "Figures of the Text" raises questions about what "reading La Fontaine" meant in the 17th century, and what it means today. The study integrates a theory of reading and a theory of textual production by drawing attention to those aspects of the text that figure writing and reading, for instance: scenes of reading; other modes of writing (emblems, hieroglyphics); inscriptions and epitaphs; proper names; and citation (proverbs, maxims, allusions); the relation of represented orality to textuality, of textuality to corporeality, and of textuality to the visual arts (ekphrasis); and the archaeology of textual figures, such as labyrinths, textiles, and veils.

Author : Colette H. Winn,Anne R. Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944584

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Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women by Colette H. Winn,Anne R. Larsen Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jo Ann Marie Recker
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809140179

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Françoise Blin de Bourdon, Woman of Influence by Jo Ann Marie Recker Pdf

A biography of the cofoundress and second Mother General of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, whose life spanned the years 1756-1838, during which she endured the turmoil of the French Revolution and its aftermath.

Author : James Frederick Mason,Hélène Joséphine Harvitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B3604852

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The French Review by James Frederick Mason,Hélène Joséphine Harvitt Pdf