Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant by Hartig, Rachel M.

Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820410753)

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Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant by Hartig, Rachel M.

Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant

$60.55
Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant by Hartig, Rachel M.

Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant

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Format: Hardcover
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Struggling to free themselves from the controlling eye of the male, Maupassant's fictional heroines move from passive to more active forms of rebellion. Early heroines look inward to the world of dreams or turn their eye to a more sympathetic lover. Later heroines actively try to captivate the eye of the male, victimizing him in turn. In this aggressive game, however, the female protagonists risk losing their humanity.
Pursuing this analysis, based on the combined approaches of the Geneva critic Jean Starobinski in L'Oeil vivant (1961) and the American critic Carolyn Heilbrun in Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1974), Dr. Hartig challenges, through textual analyses of the novels in their chronological order, the prevailing critical opinion that the psychology of Maupassant's female characters undergoes no change.

Author: Rachel M. Hartig
ISBN-10: 0820410756
ISBN-13: 9780820410753
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1991
Pages: 135
Format: Hardcover
By Rachel M. Hartig
By Rachel M. Hartig
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The Author: Rachel M. Hartig is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. She is the author of Man and French Society: Changing Images and Relationships and numerous articles on the methodology of foreign language teaching. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been a New York State Regents Scholar and a Predoctoral Fellow of the American Association of University Women. She received her B.A. magna cum laude with honors in French from Brooklyn College and her Ph.D. in Modern Languages and Literatures with a concentration in nineteenth-century French literature from The Catholic University of America.

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