"Appelle-moi Pierrot"

Author: Jo Ann Marie Recker

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9789027217318

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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.

Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies

Author: Eleanor Amico

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-03-20

Total Pages: 1279

ISBN-13: 1135314039

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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."

Françoise Blin de Bourdon, Woman of Influence
Françoise Blin de Bourdon, Woman of Influence

Author: Jo Ann Marie Recker

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780809140176

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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.

Reading La Regenta
Reading La Regenta

Author: Stephanie A. Sieburth

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9789027217448

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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.

Gender and Representation
Gender and Representation

Author: Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789027217509

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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.

Encyclopedia of the Essay
Encyclopedia of the Essay

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 1135314101

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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

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions
Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Author: Susan Petit

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9789027217608

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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.

Identity and Ideology
Identity and Ideology

Author: Julie Candler Hayes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9789027217561

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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.