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The Fictional Female

Sacrificial Rituals and Spectacles of Writing in Baudelaire, Zola, and Cocteau

by Romana N. Lowe (Author)
©1997 Others XII, 239 Pages

Summary

Why are fictional females violently attacked and ultimately eliminated in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts written by male authors? A specific and widespread pattern not only determines the fate of heroines in French fiction, but also affects us today. What leads a poet, a novelist and a playwright all in the same chilling direction? The connection between the artistic role of the fictional female and her untimely death is given in the analysis of Baudelaire, Zola, and Cocteau. This book demonstrates how and why women are «set up» to be sacrificed in a ritual that involves the very notions of gender and identity.

Details

Pages
XII, 239
Publication Year
1997
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820436944
Language
English
Keywords
heroines death gender identity role
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1997. XII, 239 pp.

Biographical notes

Romana N. Lowe (Author)

The Author: Romana N. Lowe teaches French and Spanish in Boston University's Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department where she received a Ph.D. in French Literature. She has lectured on Zola and Baudelaire and published on Zola.

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