LEADER 04292nam 22006012 450 001 9910451476103321 005 20210531145055.0 010 $a94-012-0222-2 010 $a1-4237-9169-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401202220 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462440 035 $a(EBL)556385 035 $a(OCoLC)70866415 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108876 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11999099 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108876 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045106 035 $a(PQKB)10647718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556385 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380262 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401202220 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462440 100 $a20200716d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBaroque Fictions $eRevisioning the Classical in Marguerite Yourcenar /$fMargaret Elizabeth Colvin 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (178 p.) 225 1 $aFaux Titre ;$v271 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-1838-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aI. A Frontispiece -- II. Introduction -- Marguerite Yourcenar and the Writing of Fiction: An Aesthetic Imperative -- III. Chapter 1 -- Anna,Soror.: Neobaroque Sacralizes the Abject -- IV. Chapter 2 -- Denier du rêve : Baroque Discourses,Fascist Practices -- V. Chapter 3 -- Neobaroque Humanism: "Sounding the Abyss " in L '?uvre au Noir -- VI. Chapter 4 -- Neobaroque Confessions: Un homme obscur and the Oppressive Superficiality of Words -- VII. Conclusion -- An Author for the New Millennium -- VIII. Selected Works Cited and Consulted -- IX. Index of Proper Names. 330 $aThis volume is the first in-depth study of the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar's fiction to contend that the author's texts exhibit in unexpected ways numerous characteristics of the neobaroque. This subversive, postmodern aesthetic privileges extravagant artistic play, flux, and heterogeneity. In demonstrating the affinity of Yourcenar's texts with the neobaroque, the author of this study casts doubt on their presumed transparency and stability, qualities associated with the French neoclassical tradition of the past century, where the Yourcenarian ?uvre is most often placed. Yourcenar's election to the prestigious, tradition-bound French Academy in 1981 as its first female "immortal" cemented her already well-established niche in the twentieth-century French literary pantheon. A self-taught classicist, historian, and modern-day French moralist, Yourcenar has been praised for her polished, "classical" style and analyzed for her use of myth and universal themes. While those factors at first seem to justify amply the neoclassical label by which Yourcenar is most widely recognized, this study's close reading of four of her fictions reveals instead the texts' opacity and subversive resistance to closure, their rejection of stable interpretations, and their deconstruction of postmodern Grand Narratives. Theirs is a neobaroque "logic," which stresses the absence of theoretical assurances and the limitations of reason. The coincidence of the new millennium - which in so many ways reflects Yourcenar's disquieting vision - and her centenary in 2003 affords not so much an excuse to reject the author's neoclassical label, but rather the obligation to reassess it in light of contemporary discourses. This study will be of interest to students of twentieth-century French fiction and comparative literature, especially that of the latter half of the twentieth century. 410 0$aFaux Titre ;$v271. 517 3 $aRevisioning the Classical in Marguerite Yourcenar 606 $aBaroque literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aClassicism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBaroque literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aClassicism in literature. 676 $a873.9 700 $aColvin$b Margaret Elizabeth$0975458 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451476103321 996 $aBaroque fictions$92221206 997 $aUNINA