Marguerite Yourcenar
Reading the Visual

Nigel Saint

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Studies In Comparative Literature 5

Legenda

1 November 2000  •  214pp

ISBN: 1-900755-39-4 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is now recognised as a writer of international stature. The success of Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951) and her election to the Académie française in 1980 have created a worldwide audience for her work across the genres -- novel, short story, essay, memoir and play -- and for her published interviews and correspondence. By subverting some of Yourcenar's own accounts of her work and engaging with recent developments in the fields of art history and critical theory, Nigel Saint offers new directions in literary studies and visual culture studies. His reading of Yourcenar embraces both the historical novels and the lesser-known essays, and constructs an interdisciplinary theory for the analysis of visual experience as inflected by writing.

Nigel Saint is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds.

Reviews:

  • ‘Scholarly and lucidly written, Saint's study will appeal both to the specialist and to readers with a broader interest in word and image research.’ — Jean H. Duffy, French Studies LVI.3, 2002, 430
  • unsigned notice, Société Internationale d'Etudes Yourcenariennes 21, 2000, 8

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Saint, Nigel, Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual, Studies In Comparative Literature, 5 (Legenda, 2000)

First footnote reference: 35 Nigel Saint, Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual, Studies In Comparative Literature, 5 (Legenda, 2000), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Saint, p. 47.

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Saint, Nigel. 2000. Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual, Studies In Comparative Literature, 5 (Legenda)

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Example footnote reference: 35 Saint 2000: 21.

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