{"product_id":"madness-in-twentieth-century-french-women-s-writing","title":"Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s Writing","description":"This 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.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251997430104,"sku":"9783039115402","price":46.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039115402_c6caaa64-bb1f-4295-a4f8-800ce4be49e3.jpg?v=1777086072","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/madness-in-twentieth-century-french-women-s-writing","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}