Aimer et mourir : love, death, and women's lives in texts of French expression /: love, death, and women's lives in texts of French expression. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eilene Hoft-March and Judith Holland Sarnecki.
• Other Names: Hoft-March, Eilene; Sarnecki, Judith Holland, 1944-
• Contents: Mechanical beauty or death of love : villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve future / Vera A. Klekovkina -- (Re)producing death in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart / Susie Hennessy -- Vampires suck but not as much as the men who use them : the narratological strategy of the vampire chez Gautier / Julia diLiberti -- "Death and the maiden" : murder and eroticism in the work of Amélie Nothomb / Amaleena Damle ́ -- The mother as Femme fatale : God, Eros, and Thanatos in Marcelle Tinayre's La maison du péché / France Grenaudier-Klijn -- Writing motherhood : Marie Darrieussecq's Le bébé / Helena Chadderton -- Sheherazade's double : remembering Assia Djebar's "Dismembered woman" / Judith Holland Sarnecki -- Re-inscribing the body : a study of Leïla Marouane's Le Châtiment des hypocrites / Jane E. Evans -- Death defines her : representations of the widow in early modern French literature / Kathleen M. Llewellyn -- The narcissistic quest for love in LaFayette, Capécia, and Condé / Eileen Ketchum McEwan -- Repeating death, remembering love : Catherine Clément on survival / Eilene Hoft-March -- The dance of life and death in Nancy Huston's Visages de l'aube and Dolce agonia / Patrice J. Proulx.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 329 pages)
• Subjects: 840.9350042; Literary essays; French literature -- History and criticism; Women in literature; French literature -- History and criticism; Women in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French; French literature; Women in literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literature: history & criticism; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443804578; 1443804576
• Related ISBNs: 9781443804455; 1443804452
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.