Baroque fictions : revisioning the classical in Marguerite Yourcenar /

This volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar's fiction to contend that the author's texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and hete...

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Autor principal: Colvin, Margaret Elizabeth
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Col·lecció:Faux titre ; no. 271.
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160082
Taula de continguts:
  • A frontispiece
  • Marguerite Yourcenar and the writing of fiction: an aesthetic imperative
  • Anna, Soror ... : Neobaroque sacralizes the abject
  • Denier du rêve: Baroque discourses, fascist practices
  • Neobaroque humanism: "Sounding the Abyss" in L'Œuvre au Noir
  • Neobaroque confessions: un homme obscur and the oppressive superficiality of words
  • An author for the new millennium
  • Selected works cited and consulted
  • Index of proper names.