Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar et les von Vietinghoff written by Michèle Goslar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les von Vietinghoff, et surtout Jeanne, sont omniprésents dans l'œuvre de Yourcenar, depuis son premier récit, 'Alexis', jusqu'à son dernier roman, 'Quoi, l'Eternité?', publié de manière posthume. Jeanne est aussi présente dans sa poésie et ses essais. Quelles furent les relations entre la famille de Crayencour et la famille von Vietinghoff? Qui fut Jeanne de Vietinghoff? Quel genre d'écrivain? Pourquoi Yourcenar l'assimile-t-elle à Diotime? Autant de questions qui trouveront une réponse dans le présent ouvrage.
Download or read book We Met in Paris written by Joan E Howard and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.
Download or read book Baroque Fictions written by Margaret Elizabeth Colvin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 oeuvre is most often placed. Yourcenar's election to the prestigious, tradition-bound French Academy in 1981 as its first female "immortal" cemented her already well-established niche in the twentieth-century French literary pantheon. A self-taught classicist, historian, and modern-day French moralist, Yourcenar has been praised for her polished, "classical" style and analyzed for her use of myth and universal themes. While those factors at first seem to justify amply the neoclassical label by which Yourcenar is most widely recognized, this study's close reading of four of her fictions reveals instead the texts' opacity and subversive resistance to closure, their rejection of stable interpretations, and their deconstruction of postmodern Grand Narratives. Theirs is a neobaroque "logic," which stresses the absence of theoretical assurances and the limitations of reason. The coincidence of the new millennium -- which in so many ways reflects Yourcenar's disquieting vision -- and her centenary in 2003 affords not so much an excuse to reject the author's neoclassical label, but rather the obligation to reassess it in light of contemporary discourses. This study will be of interest to students of twentieth-century French fiction and comparative literature, especially that of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Josyane Savigneau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.
Download or read book The Understanding of Good written by Jeanne de Vietinghoff and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PhilosophySpiritual Enrichment Transcendentalism
Download or read book Joseph d Arimathie written by Robert (de Boron) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA written by Bérengère Deprez and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the real effect of the United States on Yourcenar'slife and thought, a good read on a fascinating subject which critics have often treated dimissively. Future scholarship will be obliged to weigh Berengere Deprez's arguments and evidence seriously, and thank her for her clearheaded thoroughness. Prof. Brian Gill, University of Calgary, Canada --
Download or read book How Many Years written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Yourcenar, one of France's most celebrated authors, here continues the absorbing tale of her background and origins. The first volume of her autobiographical trilogy, Dear Departed, was devoted to her maternal forebears. The current book, originally published in 1977 under the title Archives du Nord and now making its first appearance in English, introduces us to her father's side of the family. Yourcenar takes us back in time, to relive the tumultuous history of northeastern France through the eyes of a remarkable gallery of ancestors: canonesses and matriarchs, statesmen and scoundrels, merchants and artists (the painter Peter Paul Rubens married into the family). But the central character in the narrative is the individual who had the greatest formative influence on Yourcenar: her father, Michel de Crayencour, who educated her, encouraged her literary ambitions, and fostered in her the intellectual breadth, originality, and subtlety that are so characteristic of her work.
Download or read book Dreams and Destinies written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.
Download or read book Le Bone Florence of Rome written by Carol Falvo Heffernan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Achmy Halley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Qui était Marguerite Yourcenar ? Derrière de la grande écrivaine, première femme élue à l'Académie française en 1980, se cachait un être libre et passionné. Celle qui se considérait comme la "servante des oiseaux" et voyait la cuisine comme une alchimie, a pleinement vécu en accord avec ses convictions. Citoyenne du monde, pionnière de l'écologie, militante de la cause animale...Au travers de son art de vivre et d'une sélection de ses recettes de cuisine préférées, de nombreux documents d'archives parfois inédits et de ses écrits, se dessine le récit intime de sa vie" -- Site internet de l'éditeur
Download or read book La venjance Alixandre written by le Névelon Jean and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Jeanine S. Alesch and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Pierre L. Horn and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subversive Subjects written by Judith Holland Sarnecki and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar is the first collection of articles in English to deal with many of this very private author's best-known works. Its contributors make use of a variety of literary theories to probe the complex ambiguities at the heart of Yourcenar's writings. Each contributor ventures beyond traditional readings of Yourcenar's complex texts, pushing against the boundaries of interpretation that the Belgian-born writer carefully established. Many of the essays read like a mystery; hence they follow Yourcenar's call for rigorous explications du texte as they probe her complex ouevre. Judith Holland Sarnecki is Associate Professor of French at Lawrence University. Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey is Associate Professor of German and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
Download or read book Yourcenar en images written by Michèle Goslar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outre la reconstitution de la vie et de la carrière de la première femme élue à l'Académie française, ce livre-album présente une Marguerite Yourcenar plus intime : l'impact de la perte de la mère à la naissance, l'influence d'un père aventurier, les acquis d'une enfance à la campagne, l'ambition de réussir dans les Lettres, le but recherché de ses multiples voyages, le bonheur continuellement manqué, l'exil en Amérique, les deux romans qui firent sa notoriété, l'inquiétude quant à l'état du monde, la compassion pour la Nature et les espèces, les années immobiles à Northeast Harbor, les honneurs ...
Download or read book Dear Departed written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1974 under the title 'Souvenirs Pieux', DEAR DEPARTED is the first volume of a trilogy by Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most celebrated French writers of the century, devoted to her own origins and background. Yourcenar describes the events surrounding her birth in 1903, then takes us back through the centuries to meet her mother's forebears: soldiers, essayists, idealists, heroines, even ambassadors. Throughout, the history of the family serves as a window on the history of a rapidly-changing Europe.Using memoirs, letters and momentos, Yourcenar richly evokes both the larger events on the European stage and the rhythms and textures of everyday existence. Though rarely visible, Yourcenar is everywhere present, her perceptions rendered in her unmistakable voice. The book is a tour-de-force of historical and literary imagination.
