Beyond Écriture féminine
Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard

Cathy Helen Wardle

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 69

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

14 January 2007  •  154pp

ISBN: 978-1-904350-63-7 (hardback)  •  RRP £34.99, $48.99, €41.99

ISBN: 978-1-123144-30-7 (Google ebook)  •  RRP £4.95

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Beyond 'Écriture Féminine' is the first book to be published exploring the work of the contemporary French author Jeanne Hyvrard (1945-) from her early novels of the 1970s to more recent texts of the 1990s and beyond. Moving critical accounts of Hyvrard beyond a focus upon écriture féminine, it identifies the patterns through which her writing repeats and transforms creation mythology, her own oeuvre, and her own life, examining how intertextual repetitions bind her work together into a complex and ever-expanding web of allusions and resonances which engages the reader in a process of constant re-interpretation, challenging notions of linearity and reflecting the 'chaotic' reality of life in the Hyvrardian world.

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Reviews:

  • ‘This study offers a lucid and compelling interpretation of Hyvrard that moves criticism of her work in a productive new direction. It will be of undoubted interest to researchers working on Hyvrard’s writing and equally to those working in contemporary French (women’s) writing and philosophy.’ — Kathryn Robson, Modern Language Review 103, 2008, 554 (full text online)

Bibliography entry:

Wardle, Cathy Helen, Beyond Écriture féminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 69 (MHRA, 2007)

First footnote reference: 35 Cathy Helen Wardle, Beyond Écriture féminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 69 (MHRA, 2007), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Wardle, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Wardle, Cathy Helen. 2007. Beyond Écriture féminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 69 (MHRA)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Wardle 2007: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Wardle 2007: 21.

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