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by Margaret Elizabeth Colvin| 2006| 178 pages| 0.672| English

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This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar?Ђ™s fiction to contend that the author?Ђ™s texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and heterogeneity. In demonstrating the affinity of Yourcenar?Ђ™s texts with the neobaroque, the author of this study casts doubt on their presumed transparency and stability, qualities associated with the French neoclassical tradition of the past century, where the Yourcenarian ?“uvre is most often placed. Yourcenar?Ђ™s election to the prestigious, tradition-bound French Academy in 1981 as its first female ?Ђњimmortal?Ђќ cemented her already well-established niche in the twentieth-century French literary pantheon. A self-taught classicist, historian, and modern-day French moralist, Yourcenar has been praised for her polished, ?Ђњclassical?Ђќ style and analyzed for her use of myth and universal themes. While those factors at first seem to justify amply the neoclassical label by which Yourcenar is most widely recognized, this study?Ђ™s close reading of four of her fictions reveals instead the texts?Ђ™ opacity and subversive resistance to closure, their rejection of stable interpretations, and their deconstruction of postmodern Grand Narratives. Theirs is a neobaroque ?Ђњlogic,?Ђќ which stresses the absence of theoretical assurances and the limitations of reason. The coincidence of the new millennium ?Ђ” which in so many ways reflects Yourcenar?Ђ™s disquieting vision ?Ђ” and her centenary in 2003 affords not so much an excuse to reject the author?Ђ™s neoclassical label, but rather the obligation to reassess it in light of contemporary discourses. This study will be of interest to students of twentieth-century French fiction and comparative literature, especially that of the latter half of the twentieth century. 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 r??ve : Baroque Discourses,Fascist Practices V. Chapter 3 Neobaroque Humanism: ?ЂњSounding the Abyss ?Ђќ in L ?Ђ™?’uvre 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

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Author:Margaret Elizabeth Colvin
Publication Year:2006
ISBN:9781423791690
Pages:178
Language:English
File Size:0.672
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