Madness in twentieth-century French women's writing
By: Suzanne Dow.
Series: Modern French identities -- v. 76
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039115402
Subjects: French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Mental illness in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrative's constitutive constraint: Violette Leduc's L'asphyxie; title: Reading dangerously: Lol V. Stein and the ravissement du lecteur; title: Madness and (self-)deception in Simone de Beauvoir's La femme rompue; title: The hysterical text: Marie Cardinal's Les mots pour le dire; title: Cet autre tour de folie: the madness of Jeanne la folle.