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Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the real effect of the United States on Yourcenar'slife and thought, a good read on a fascinating subject which critics have often treated dimissively. Future scholarship will be obliged to weigh Berengere Deprez's arguments and evidence seriously, and thank her for her clearheaded thoroughness. Prof. Brian Gill, University of Calgary, Canada --

Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

Marguerite Yourcenar

One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.

That Mighty Sculptor, Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.

Subversive Subjects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Subversive Subjects

Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar is the first collection of articles in English to deal with many of this very private author's best-known works. Its contributors make use of a variety of literary theories to probe the complex ambiguities at the heart of Yourcenar's writings. Each contributor ventures beyond traditional readings of Yourcenar's complex texts, pushing against the boundaries of interpretation that the Belgian-born writer carefully established. Many of the essays read like a mystery; hence they follow Yourcenar's call for rigorous explications du texte as they probe her complex ouevre. Judith Holland Sarnecki is Associate Professor of French at Lawrence University. Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey is Associate Professor of German and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Marguerite Yourcenar

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  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

"We Met in Paris"

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.

Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Marguerite Yourcenar

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This research traces the history of the evolution of Marguerite Yourcenar's creative imagination and its expression in novel and short story form from her early, experimental novellas through the historical novels of the mature artist. This study concentrates on Yourcenar's artistic achievement and essentially reveals the development of the self-conscious style of the French author. An interesting volume for students and scholars of French literature and women's studies.

A Blue Tale and Other Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

Three short stories by a Belgian writer (1903-1987), written in her youth. The title story is on Greek treasure hunters who kidnap a deaf-mute girl to lead them to a cave of sapphires and are punished for it, while An Evil Spell is on sorcery in an Italian village.

Dreams and Destinies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Dreams and Destinies

The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.

Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Marguerite Yourcenar

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