Women in French Literature
Women in French Literature by Michel Guggenheim
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0915838745 | 242 Pages | PDF | 11.6 MB
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0915838745 | 242 Pages | PDF | 11.6 MB
The women writers and the female characters discussed in this collection of essays span eight centuries of literature. Among the topics considered by a group of American and French critics are the following: women’s verbal mastery in courtly narrative, M me de Sévigné’s letters as a form of vicarious living, the ambiguity of woman’s place in the Age of Enlightenment, the diversity of Balzac’s heroines, radicalism and conformism in George Sand, Baudelaire’s strategy of evoking woman as a poetic subject/object, Daudet’s depiction of M. Seguin’s goat as an echo of Emma Bovary.