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French Women Playwrights Before The Twentieth Century

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Author : Cecilia Beach
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1994-10-26

French Women Playwrights Before The Twentieth Century written by Cecilia Beach and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Until recently, French women playwrights had received almost no critical attention and their works were for the most part completely unknown, but this volume is evidence of the important contribution they have made to world literature. It presents an extensive list of the dramatic works of more than 400 French women playwrights from the 16th through 19th centuries and includes brief biographical information, as well as publication, performance, and availability information for nearly 3,000 plays. The volume includes authors who are relatively unknown, as well as more canonical names such as Marguerite de Navarre and George Sand. The book is divided into four chapters, each devoted to a particular century with authors listed alphabetically. Each entry includes basic biographical information about the author, such as pseudonyms, place and date of birth and death, professions or activities for which the author is known, and other genres in which the author wrote. Plays are listed chronologically under the author's name.

French Women Playwrights Of The Twentieth Century

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Author : Cecilia Beach
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1996-04-18

French Women Playwrights Of The Twentieth Century written by Cecilia Beach and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This checklist is witness to the vast and varied production of 20th-century French women playwrights. Like Beach's preceding volume, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood, 1994), this reference book presents an extensive list of dramatic works. Beach provides biographical information about the authors when known, as well as name variations (pseudonyms, maiden name, other marriages, etc.) The plays are listed chronologically under each author's name, followed by a variety of information about each work: genre, the place and date of publication and performances, and the location of over 2000 texts in published or manuscript form in French holding libraries. The checklist also includes a title index and a bibliography. This book provides a useful research tool not only for scholars interested in drama and/or women's literature, but also for theatre professionals.

A History Of Women S Writing In France

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Author : Sonya Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-22

A History Of Women S Writing In France written by Sonya Stephens and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.

This volume was the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars provide an introduction in English to the wealth and diversity of French women writers, offering fascinating readings and perspectives. The volume as a whole offers a cohesive history of women's writing which has sometimes been obscured by the canonisation of a small feminine elite. Each chapter focuses on a given period and a range of writers, taking account of prevailing sexual ideologies and women's activities in, or their relation to, the social, political, economic and cultural surroundings. Complemented by an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works and a biographical guide to more than one hundred and fifty women writers, it represents an invaluable resource for those wishing to discover or extend their knowledge of French literature written by women.

Women S Deliberation The Heroine In Early Modern French Women S Theater 1650 1750

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Author : Theresa Varney Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17

Women S Deliberation The Heroine In Early Modern French Women S Theater 1650 1750 written by Theresa Varney Kennedy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Literary Criticism categories.

Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in plays from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. I argue that the "deliberative heroine," emerging at the dawn of the eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Although she embodies many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on Enlightenment ideals—such as women’s ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment—truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on impulse, the "deliberative heroine" realizes the ideals of the seventeenth-century salons that petitioned for women to have "greater control over their own bodies" (DeJean 21). She is active, and her determination to follow through with her own line of reasoning—that involves both mind and heart—enables her to determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.

Women Dramatists Humor And The French Stage

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Author : J. Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-04

Women Dramatists Humor And The French Stage written by J. Johnston and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with History categories.

Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.

The Cambridge History Of French Literature

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Author : William Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-24

The Cambridge History Of French Literature written by William Burgwinkle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

Twentieth Century French Women Novelists

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Author : Lucille Frackman Becker
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1989

Twentieth Century French Women Novelists written by Lucille Frackman Becker and has been published by Boston : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.

American Women Dramatists Of The Twentieth Century

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Author : Brenda Coven
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1982

American Women Dramatists Of The Twentieth Century written by Brenda Coven and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.

Women Dramatists Humor And The French Stage

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Author : J. Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-04

The Feminist Encyclopedia Of French Literature

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Author : Eva M. Sartori
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-07-30

The Feminist Encyclopedia Of French Literature written by Eva M. Sartori and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.

The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably written by French writers. As early as the 12th century, women troubadours in the south of France were writing poems. French women continued writing through the ages, their number increasing as education became more available to women of all classes. And yet, of the great number of works by women writers who preceded the current feminist movement, very few have survived. A few writers such as Marie de France, George Sand, and Simone de Beauvoir became part of the canon. But critics, mostly male, had judged the works of only a few women writers worthy of recognition. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars in French literature began to take a new look at women writers who had been popular during their lifetimes but who had not been admitted into the canon. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors; literary genres, such as the novel, poetry, and the short story; literary movements, such as classicism, realism, and surrealism; life-cycle events particular to women, such as menstruation and menopause; events and institutions which affected women differently than men, such as revolutions, wars, and laws on marriage, divorce, and education. The volume spans French literature from the Middle Ages to the present and covers those writers who lived and worked mainly in France. The entries are written by expert contributors and each includes bibliographical information. The entries focus on each writer's awareness of how her gender shaped her outlook and opportunities, on how categorizations, structures, and terms used to describe literary works have been defined for women, and the ways in which women writers have responded to these definitions. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a chronology of women writers.

French Women Playwrights Of The Twentieth Century

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