Baroque fictions : : revisioning the classical in Marguerite Yourcenar / / Margaret Elizabeth Colvin.
This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar's fiction to contend that the author's texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and hete...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 271 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. A Frontispiece
- II. Introduction
- Marguerite Yourcenar and the Writing of Fiction: An Aesthetic Imperative
- III. Chapter 1
- Anna,Soror.: Neobaroque Sacralizes the Abject
- IV. Chapter 2
- Denier du rêve : Baroque Discourses,Fascist Practices
- V. Chapter 3
- Neobaroque Humanism: "Sounding the Abyss " in L 'Œuvre au Noir
- VI. Chapter 4
- Neobaroque Confessions: Un homme obscur and the Oppressive Superficiality of Words
- VII. Conclusion
- An Author for the New Millennium
- VIII. Selected Works Cited and Consulted
- IX. Index of Proper Names.