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Gaps And Barriers: Division And Revelation In Michel Butor’S La Modification, Mary L. Bauer
Gaps And Barriers: Division And Revelation In Michel Butor’S La Modification, Mary L. Bauer
Languages Faculty Publications
Gaps divide things that can’t quite come together, while cracks warn that something that was a coherent whole is coming apart. Michel Butor implants images of these two powerful symbols within his narrative of Léon Delmont’s troubled relationships with his wife, Henriette, and his lover, Cécile Darcella in his novel, La modification (1957). Some are obvious physical manifestations, while others are figurative, yet no less real. Butor then turns the concept of gap literally on its head by using its inverse, the barrier, to emphasize the self-imposed obstacles to a healthy relationship on both sides of Léon’s not so-secret double …
Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives (Book Review), Claire Marrone
Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives (Book Review), Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
Book review by Claire Marrone.
Webb, Emma, ed. Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives. Bern, Switzerland; New York: Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 9783039105442
The Limits Of Writing In Marie Cardinal's Amour... Amours..., Claire Marrone
The Limits Of Writing In Marie Cardinal's Amour... Amours..., Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
Amour... amours... enters into a body of literature in French, particularly in the postcolonial period, that deals with the bilingual and bicultural aspects of selfhood. In focusing on the France-Algeria connection, the text illustrates the challenges of negotiating between conflicting allegiances. Salient issues in self-definition emerge, including the significance of one's birthplace and the loss of one's homeland. What is interesting in Amour... amours... is the way in which Cardinal conjures up remembrances of Algeria, including stylistic experimentation, intertextual echoes, and the thematization of love evoked in the title. With her protagonist, Lola Lavoie, the author evokes both la …
George Sand And Cristina Di Belgiojoso's Literary Dialogue, Claire Marrone
George Sand And Cristina Di Belgiojoso's Literary Dialogue, Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
Presents a scholarly analysis of Italian woman writer Cristina Di Belgiojoso's writings in an effort to situate them better in relation to the work done by another female writer George Sand to identify the influence these two authors had on one another. Impact of their involvement in progressive politics on their work; Overview of similarities of views between these two authors; Highlights of their writings that suggests their mutual influence on one another.
Male And Female Bildung: The Mémoires De Céleste Mogador, Claire Marrone
Male And Female Bildung: The Mémoires De Céleste Mogador, Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
The 'Memoires de Celeste Mogador' is a Bildungsroman narrating the life a a prostitute and an actress. Censorship may have been the reason the book was not better known in its own time, and maybe even today. She eventually marries a count with whom she has an affair and follows him when he becomes French consul to Australia. The books recounts the life of an exceptional 19th century heroine, who has the strength to succeed despite a society which limits female roles and has ideas about proper marriages.
‘Little Women?’: History And Her Stories In Marie Cardinal's Comme Si De Rien N'Était, Claire Marrone
‘Little Women?’: History And Her Stories In Marie Cardinal's Comme Si De Rien N'Était, Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
This is a revised version of the talk Claire Marrone presented under the same title, on the Fiction of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, Three Centuries of French Feminist Writers Symposium, Hofstra University, Hofstra, NY, 21 April 1994.
Past, Present And Passion Tense In Annie Ernaux's Passion Simple, Claire Marrone
Past, Present And Passion Tense In Annie Ernaux's Passion Simple, Claire Marrone
Languages Faculty Publications
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