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Éléments antiques et classiques dans l'œuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar: 'Le Coup de grâce'

Translated title of the contribution: Ancient and classical references in the work of Marguerite Yourcenar: "Death blow"
  • Jane Southwood

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Abstract



Greek and Roman antiquity is, as is well known, very evident in the work of Marguerite Yourcenar. If her monumental work: "Hadrian's memoirs," published in 1951, constitutes, in a way, the apogee of her predilection for Greece and Rome of the past, it is true that the writer's strong interest in this period is clearly revealed in these imaginary memoirs of this Roman emperor of the second century A.D. and Southwood demonstrates how this interest continues to be apparent in Yourcenar's work.
Translated title of the contributionAncient and classical references in the work of Marguerite Yourcenar: "Death blow"
Original languageFrench
Title of host publicationFrench Seventeenth-Century Literature: Influences and Transformations - Essays in Honour of Christopher Gossip
EditorsJane Southwood, Bernard Bourque
Place of PublicationOxford, United Kingdom
PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Group
Pages235-259
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9783039115372
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Publication series

NameMedieval and Early Modern French Studies
Number7
ISSN (Electronic)1661-8653

Keywords

  • Literature in French

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