Writing in the Father's House : The Emergence of the Feminine in the Quebec Literary Tradition / Patricia Smart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smart, Patricia, author.

Series:

Heritage

Standardized Title:

Ecrire dans la maison du pere. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French-Canadian literature--Québec (Province)--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature.

French-Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Québec (Province).

Women and literature.

Sex differences (Psychology) in literature.

Québec.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

Patricia Smart studies the historical roots of this development in her study of gender differences in Quebec literature.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; AUTHOR'S NOTE ON THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION; Introduction: Traces of a murder; 1 Angeline de Montbrun or the fall into writing; 2 Alphonsine Moisan's subversion: The voice of the repressed feminine in the novel of the land; 3 Opening the house to the Other: The novels of Germaine Guevremont; 4 The defeated son and the rebellious daughter: The poetry of Saint-Denys Garneau and Anne Hebert; 5 When the voices of resistance become political: The Tin Flute or realism in the feminine

6 The corpse under the foundations of the house: Violence to women in the contemporary Quebec novel7 What Oedipus sees: Hamlet's Twin and the impasse of 'his story'; 8 Reclaiming Electra: The writing of France Theoret; Conclusion; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-295) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8468-7

OCLC:

1114794683