{"product_id":"madness-in-twentieth-century-french-women-s-writing-leduc-duras-beauvoir-cardinal-hyvrard-9783039115402","title":"Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women’s writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc’s \u003ci\u003eL’Asphyxie\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), Marguerite Duras’s \u003ci\u003eLe Ravissement de Lol V. Stein\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘La Femme rompue’ (1967), Marie Cardinal’s \u003ci\u003eLes Mots pour le dire\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), Jeanne Hyvrard’s \u003ci\u003eLes Prunes de Cythère\u003c\/i\u003e (1975) and \u003ci\u003eMère la mort\u003c\/i\u003e (1976). The discussion traces the evolution in the way madness is taken up by women authors from the key period starting just prior to the emergence of second-wave feminism and culminating at the height of the \u003ci\u003eécriture féminine\u003c\/i\u003e project. This study argues that madness offers itself up to these authors as a powerful means to convey a certain ambivalence towards changing contemporary ideas on the authority of authorship. On the one hand a highly enabling means to figure transgression, the madwoman is equally the repository for a twentieth-century ‘anxiety of authorship’ on the part of the woman writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Narrative’s Constitutive Constraint: Violette Leduc’s \u003ci\u003eL’Asphyxie\u003c\/i\u003e – Reading Dangerously: Lol V. Stein and the \u003ci\u003eRavissement du lecteur\u003c\/i\u003e – Madness and (Self-)Deception in Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘La Femme rompue’ – The Hysterical Text: Marie Cardinal’s \u003ci\u003eLes Mots pour le dire\u003c\/i\u003e – ‘Cet autre tour de folie’: The Madness of Jeanne la folle.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043736781143,"sku":"9783039115402","price":33.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039115402.jpg?v=1750959285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/madness-in-twentieth-century-french-women-s-writing-leduc-duras-beauvoir-cardinal-hyvrard-9783039115402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}