Heroic Tropes

Heroic Tropes PDF Author: Pierrette Daly
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324271
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
Of Bourignon and Guyon, the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, the letters of Sevigne to her daughter, and the autobiographical works of Rousseau and Sand, Daly traces recurring patterns of narrative innovation that seem convincingly linked to both the author's gender and the gender of characters. Her final chapter analyzes theoretical writings by Cixous and Kristeva in terms of the fictional paradigms she has established. As it addresses heroic narratives of the.