WomenS Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
WomenS Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s
By (Author) Gill Rye
Edited by Michael Worton
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
23rd January 2003
United Kingdom
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Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary production, whilst 15 original essays focus on individual writers. The text also discusses authors published in the 1980s who gained mainstream status with new publications in the 1990s, such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar, and looks at up-and-coming authors, including Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. There are specialist biographies on each writer, English translations, major interviews, quotations and key critical studies.
Author Bio
Gill Rye is Lecturer in French at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London Michael Worton is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature at University College, London
