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Following a resolutely textual approach, Joan E. Howard examines the neglected but central role of sacrifice in the literary oeuvre of Marguerite Yourcenar.Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman elected to the previously all-male bastion of the Acad?mie fran?aise. However, while some readers have regarded Yourcenar as antagonistic to modem feminism, Howard shows that Yourcenars works are susceptible to some surprisingly feminist interpretations. Those who would co-opt Yourcenar into the conservative camp, warns Howard, have not read her work carefully enough. In Le myst?re dAlceste, for example, Yourcenars Alcestis substitutes for her husband in death not out of wifely devotion, but to escape her stifling existence as wife and mother.By combining her textual approach with various strains of poststructuralist theory, Howard argues convincingly that Yourcenars novels, stories, and plays call for a radical destructuring both of the human subject as commonly conceived and of the social, political, economic, and religious institutions in the Western world. Howard is the first to demonstrate that the largely unexamined role of sacrifice is central both to that critique and to Yourcenars literary oeuvre.

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title:From Violence to Vision : Sacrifice in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar
author:Howard, Joan E.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809316730
print isbn13:9780809316731
ebook isbn13:9780585031392
language:English
subjectYourcenar, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature--France--History--20th century, Sacrifice in literature, Violence in literature.
publication date:1992
lcc:PQ2649.O8Z7 1992eb
ddc:848/.91209
subject:Yourcenar, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature--France--History--20th century, Sacrifice in literature, Violence in literature.
From Violence To Vision
Sacrifice in the Works
of
Marguerite
Yourcenar
Joan E. Howard
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
For my mother, Theda Scott Howard, whose love of
books and words of French I was so lucky to inherit
Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Edited and designed by W. Bruce Rohrer
Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
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The following publishers have generously given permission to use quotations fromcopyrighted works.
Editions GALLIMARD for works by Marguerite Yourcenar: Le coup de grce 1939,1966, 1971; Denier du rve 1934, 1959, 1971; Memoires d'Hadrien 1951, 1953,1971; Le mystere d'Alceste 1963, 1971; Nouvelles orientales 1938, 1963; L'oeuvreau noir 1968; Qui n'a pas son Minotaure? 1963, 1971.
Performing Arts Journal Publications for To Each His Minotaur by MargueriteYourcenar, translated by Dori Katz 1984.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.:Excerpts from THE ABYSS by Marguerite Yourcenar. Copyright 1976 by Mar-guerite Yourcenar. Excerpts from A COIN IN NINE HANDS by Marguerite Your-cenar. Translation copyright 1982 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Excerpts fromCOUP DE GRACE by Marguerite Yourcenar. Copyright 1957 and renewal copy-right 1985 by Marguerite Yourcenar. Excerpts from MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN byMarguerite Yourcenar. Copyright 1963 by Marguerite Yourcenar. Excerpts fromORIENTAL TALES by Marguerite Yourcenar. Translation copyright 1985 byAlberto Manguel.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Howard, Joan E., 1951
From violence to vision: sacrifice in the works of Marguerite Yourcenar / Joan E.
Howard.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Yourcenar, Marguerite Criticism and interpretation.
2. Feminism and literature France History 20th century.
3. Sacrifice in literature. 4. Violence in literature. I. Title.
PQ2649.08Z7 1992
848'.91209 dc20Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12Picture 13Picture 1490-25808
ISBN 0-8093-1673-0Picture 15Picture 16Picture 17Picture 18Picture 19CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of AmericanNational Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for PrintedLibrary Materials, ANSI Z39.481984.
Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Titles of Works Quoted
xi
1.
Introduction:
Myth and Beyond
1
2.
Sacrificial Politics:
Qui n'a pas son Minotaure?
9
3.
Sacrificial Poetics:
Le Mystre d'Alceste
42
4.
Portrait of the Artist:
Nouvelles orientales
76
5.
Making of a Man:
Le coup de grce
117
6.
No Exit:
Denier du rve
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