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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1. Verfasser: Colvin, Margaret Elizabeth
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:Faux titre ; no. 271.
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Zusammenfassung: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 heterogeneity. In demonstrating the affinity of Yourcenar's texts with the neobaroque, the author of this study casts doubt on their presumed transparency and stability, qualities associated with the French neoclassical tradition of the past century, where the Yourcenarian uvre is most often placed. Yourcenar's.
Beschreibung:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Connecticut, 2004.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (177 pages).
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
ISBN:142379169X
9781423791690
9401202222
9789401202220

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