| Description |
252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Achilles on the field of sexual politics / Katherine Callen King -- Autobiography and matricide: Marguerite Yourcenar's Dear departed / Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier -- Reading prohibited: The politics of Yourcenar's prefaces / Carole Allamand -- Is there no body on the scene of writing?: contemporary conceptions of textual practice in/and Yourcenar's paratexts / Mieke Taat -- Coup de grće as male fantasy: on the sexual politics of fascism / Michael Rothberg -- Questions of genre: History and the self in Marguerite Yourcenar's Mémoires d'Hadrien / Ksenya Kiebuzinski -- The essays of Marguerite Yourcenar: analogy and eternity / Henk Hillenaar -- Good intentions: Marguerite Yourcenar's American translations / Francesca Counihan -- Performing the masculine voice / Elène Cliche -- Death-defying acts: performing gender in Marguerite Yourcenar's "Sappho ou le suicide" / Judith Holland Sarnecki. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index. |
| Subject |
Yourcenar, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yourcenar, Marguerite. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Sarnecki, Judith Holland, 1944-
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Majer O'Sickey, Ingeborg, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0838639925 alkaline paper |
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