Aimer et mourir : love, death, and women's lives in texts of French expression / edited by Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Holland Sarnecki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoft-March, Eilene.

Sarnecki, Judith Holland, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aimer et Mourir offers a wide-ranging selection of essays that collectively address how, from the Middle Ages to the present, the notions of love and death get inextricably associated with the narratives that are women's lives. Some of the essays tackle male writers' representations that link women and, in particular, women's sexuality, with death, resulting in the figures of the femme fatale, the woman in parturition, and the desiring vampire. A number of essays reiterate that women's hyper...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; MECHANIZING THE FEMALE BODY; MECHANICAL BEAUTY OR DEATH OF LOVE; (RE)PRODUCING DEATH IN EMILE ZOLA'S ROUGON-MACQUART; SEX BLOODY SEX; VAMPIRES SUCK BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THE MENWHO USE THEM; "DEATH AND THE MAIDEN"; MOTHERS GOOD AND BAD; THE MOTHER AS FEMME FATALE; WRITING MOTHERHOOD; WOMEN AND VIOLENCE; SHEHERAZADE'S DOUBLE; RE-INSCRIBING THE BODY; WHEN LOVE EQUALS DEATH; DEATH DEFINES HER; THE NARCISSISTIC QUEST FOR LOVE IN LAFAYETTE, CAPÉCIA, AND CONDÉ; BEYOND LOVE AND DEATH; REPEATING DEATH, REMEMBERING LOVE

THE DANCE OF LIFE AND DEATH IN NANCY HUSTON'S VISAGES DE L'AUBE AND DOLCE AGONIACONCLUSION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-0457-6

OCLC:

823721047