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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a841.00915 _bLEV _223
100	1		_aLevy, Gayle A. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRefiguring the muse / _cGayle A. Levy
264		1	_aNew York : _bP. Lang, _c1999
300			_a186 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aAlthough the muse is an integral element in discussions of poetic creation, no extended study before Refiguring the Muse has addressed the role of this figure in French literature. This work focuses on the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, Albert Samain, Sully Prudhomme, Anna de Noailles, and Renee Vivien and takes as its central concern the relationships between poetic expression and the social, cultural, and historical representations of gender between 1870 and 1914. Dr.Levy's approach to the subject is twofold. First, she redefines the term "muse" in order to take into account the changes that the word has undergone within the French historical and literary context since the thirteenth century. Then, she shows how the figure of the poetic muse itself changes and begins to be liberated from the nineteenth-century concept that had kept the trope frozen in a passive role.
650		0	_aFrench poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aFrench poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aMuses (Greek deities) in literature.
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aFrench poetry
650		0	_aMuses (Greek deities) in literature
650		0	_aWomen in literature
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