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Matrix
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ISBN: 9780593421192 0593421191 9781594634499 1594634491 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books,

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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world"--

Marginal forces, cultural centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the politics of the canon
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ISBN: 9780801480201 0801423775 0801499216 9781501723087 1501723081 9780801423772 0801480205 150172309X 9781501728013 1501728016 9780801499210 Year: 1992 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"-including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig-she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.


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La tradition des romans de femmes : XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
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ISBN: 9782745322876 2745322877 Year: 2012 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris : H. Champion,

Anne Hébert : Le secret de vie et de mort
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ISBN: 2760315363 2760326896 2760305120 9782760315365 Year: 2000 Publisher: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press

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Très rapidement, Anne Hébert trouve sa voie, singulière entre toutes celles de notre littérature : le matérialisme. Entendons par là que, récusant l'enseignement religieux, c'est dans les profondeurs du moi que l'auteure cherche la vérité de l'être ; et la plongée en soi révèle essentiellement, comme le disait Freud, le jeu des pulsions. Pulsions de vie et de mort. Toute l'oeuvre est un quête du secret logé dans le coeur charnel, une quête du désir et des risques mortels qu'il fait courir à celui ou celle (François, Catherine, Elisabeth, Julie, Héloïse, Stevens...) qui s'abîme en lui. Cette


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Plotting change: contemporary women's fiction
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ISBN: 0713166037 9780713166033 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Arnold


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Romans de femmes du 18e siècle: Mme de Tencin, Mme de Graffigny, Mme Riccoboni, Mme de Charrière, Olympe de Gouges, Mme de Souza, Mme Cottin, Mme de Genlis, Mme de Krüdener, Mme de Duras
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ISBN: 2221080971 9782221080979 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris Laffont


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Stratégies de romancières: de Clélie à La princesse de Clèves (1654-1678)
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ISBN: 2745300156 9782745300157 Year: 1999 Volume: 20 Publisher: Paris Champion

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19th-century American women's novels: interpretative strategies
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ISBN: 0521382882 9780521382885 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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