YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE

märgərētˈ yoorsənärˈ, 1903–87, French writer, b. Belgium as Marguerite de Crayencour. The first woman elected (1980) to the prestigious French Academy, Yourcenar moved to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1947. Combining vast erudition with clarity and a classical sense of form, her novelistic reconstructions of historical eras and people have reached a wide audience. Her many works include Memoirs of Hadrian (1951, tr. 1954), concerning the Roman emperor; The Abyss (1968, tr. 1984), set in 16th-century N Europe; and Labyrinthe du monde (3 vol., 1974–88), a historical memoir of her own family.

See biography by J. Savigneau (1993); studies by P. Horn (1985) and G. Shurr (1987).

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Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar
Book by Judith Holland Sarnecki, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004
Subjects: Yourcenar, Marguerite--Criticism And Interpretation
...see Carminella Biondi, "Marguerite Yourcenar et le probleme noir, in...and E. Pessini, eds., Marguerite Yourcenar essayiste . Parcours , methodes...traductions americaines de Marguerite Yourcenar, in J-Ph Beau- lieu...
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From Violence to Vision: Sacrifice in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar
Book by Joan E. Howard; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--France--History--20th Century, Sacrifice In Literature, Violence In Literature, Yourcenar, Marguerite--Criticism And Interpretation
...Editions GALLIMARD for works by Marguerite Yourcenar: Le coup de grace 1939...for To Each His Minotaur by Marguerite Yourcenar , translated by Dori Katz...Excerpts from THE ABYSS by Marguerite Yourcenar. Copyright 1976 by Marguerite...
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The Troubling Play of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D
Book by Maria Stadter Fox; Susquehanna University Press, 2001
Subjects: European Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, H. D--(Hilda Doolittle)--1886-1961--Hippolytus Temporizes, Phaedra (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Tsvetaeva, Marina--1892-1941--Fedra, Yourcenar, Marguerite--Qui N'A Pas Son Minotaure
...vue du Minotaure ), while Yourcenar wrote a play. 61. Cahiers du Sud, 60. 62. Marguerite Yourcenar, Le mystere dAlceste suivi...Pindare has been reprinted in Marguerite Yourcenar, Essais et mimoires, La...
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Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing
Book by Gabriele Griffin; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Gays' Writings--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries
Y Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-87). Born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour to Franco-Belgian parents in Brussels, Yourcenar lost her mother in early infancy and was brought up by her wealthy...
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Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...Culture; Sports Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903-1987) Born...Belgian origin, Marguerite at age eighteen took as her pen name Yourcenar, an anagram of her...Black Bibliography Yourcenar, Marguerite . Essais et memoires...
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Critical Attempts to 'Effeuiller la Marguerite.'
Journal article by Sally A. Wallis; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 25, 1995
Subjects: Authors, French--Portrayals, French writers--Portrayals, Women authors--Portrayals, Women writers--Portrayals, Yourcenar, Marguerite--Portrayals
...growing interest in the work of Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman to enter...coast of Maine. Savigneaus Marguerite Yourcenar: LInvention dune vie was...by Michele Sarde, Vous, Marguerite Yourcenar: La Passion et ses masques...
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Un Lieu Utopique Dans L'OEuvre Au Noir: Le Paradis Des Anges *
Journal article by Lucia Manea; The Romanic Review, Vol. 91, 2000
Subjects: French fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., L'Oeuvre au Noir (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Yourcenar, Marguerite--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...LOEuvre au Noir (1968), de Marguerite Yourcenar, est la presence de multiples...les indications que donne Marguerite Yourcenar elle-meme, son propre...de LOEuvre au Noir (3). Marguerite Yourcenar y parle des themes boschiens...
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Index for Volume 21
Journal article; Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 22, 1993
Subjects: Feminism, Periodical indexes
...55. Runte, Roseann. Marguerite Yourcenar (Josyane Savigneau) Cr...54. Savigneau, Josyane. Marguerite Yourcenar (Roseann Runte) Cr 3...Situation WIP 1/2:56. Yourcenar, Marguerite. En pelerin et en etranger...
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Masquing the Phallus: Genital Ambiguity in Mary Renault's Historical Novels
Journal article by Ruth Hoberman; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 42, 1996
Subjects: Historical fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Renault, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sexuality in literature--Analysis
...is the answer of Marguerite Yourcenar, another lesbian...there." (50). Marguerite Yourcenars version...the artists goal, Yourcenar aims above all at...Harcourt, 1993. Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian...
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Subjectivity in the Fictional Ruin: The Caprice Genre
Journal article by Joanna Augustyn; The Romanic Review, Vol. 91, 2000
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Portrayals, depictions, etc., French literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Subjectivity--Analysis
...into an abstract one. As Marguerite Yourcenar wrote in an essay inspired...p. 191-192. (31.) Marguerite Yourcenar, Essais et memoires, p...Arts, 1984, 2 volumes. Yourcenar, Marguerite. "Le Cerveau noir de Piranese...
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Show of Strength: The British Museum's Summer Exhibition Demonstrates How the Legacy of Hadrian's Powerful Empire Permeates Our Everyday Lives, Writes Elizabeth Speller
Magazine article by Elizabeth Speller; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 18, 2008
Subjects: British Museum, Museums--Exhibitions
...largely to one woman- the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar--whose Memoirs of Hadrian...Boorman). A display case on Yourcenar is one of the first exhibits...Hadrian got the young French Yourcenar, true love and melancholy...
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Carson McCullers: A Life
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, April 2001
Subjects: American writers--Biography, McCullers, Carson
...Josyane Savigneau, the acclaimed biographer of Marguerite Yourcenar and the editor of the cultural pages of Le Monde...get their start? Savigneau, whose biography of Yourcenar manages to be at once passionate and judicious...
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Power and Wisdom: What Could an Ex-Slave Teach Hadrian? Quite a Lot, Actually
Magazine article by Mark Vernon; New Statesman, Vol. 137, August 4, 2008
Subjects: Emperors, Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--Personalities
...though Epictetus appears to have approved of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar, in her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, suggests that...that worries me, but the art of exercising it," Yourcenar has Hadrian muse. There are more details, only...
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Grazia Toderi
Magazine article by Francesca Pasini; Artforum International, Vol. 33, September 1994
Subjects: Art, Italian--Exhibitions, Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions, Toderi, Grazia--Exhibitions, Video art--Exhibitions
...fairy." Grazia Toderi uses this phrase, taken from Marguerite Yourcenar, as the title for two of her works. Toderi unearths...with Soap. It was titled with the citation from Yourcenar and unexpectedly poetic. Two gleaming basil leaves...
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Grazia Toderi; Galleria Franca Mancini / Galleria Gio Marconi
Magazine article by Francesca Pasini; Artforum International, Vol. 42, January 2004
...words QUOI? LETERNITE (What? Eternity), a citation from Marguerite Yourcenar. The contemporary theater of television expresses the aspiration...the center of the screen goes off. Translated from Italian by Marguerite Shore.
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newspaper articles on: Yourcenar Marguerite  - 6 results

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The Affairs That Kept Paris Agog
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 9, 1996
Subjects: Mitterrand, Francois
...women who adored him included actresses such as Michele Morgan and Bulle Ogier, the writer Marguerite Duras, scholarly author Marguerite Yourcenar as well as secretaries, advisers, journalists and commentators too numerous to mention. He...
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Poor Hadrian, Saddled with the Modern Sins of Dubya
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 22, 2008
Subjects: British Museum
...emperor fished out of the Thames in 1834, which Marguerite Yourcenar saw in the British Museum as a girl, sparking an...is an altogether more unsettling companion than Marguerite Yourcenars urbane philosopher-emperor," MacGregor...
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Cavarretta Took Cubs to Team's Last World Series
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 26, 2010
Subjects: Baseball players, Baseball teams, Chicago Cubs, National League, News agencies, The Associated Press
...second woman to join the Academie Francaise, the institution that safeguards the French language, after writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Italian economist Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, one of the intellectual architects of the euro and a member of the...
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Hunt for Actor to Play Gay Hadrian
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 25, 2008
Subjects: Boorman, John, British Museum, Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors
...And I with Italian producer Enzo Peri of Olympus Films. It is based on a 1951 novel, Memoirs Of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar. Mr Peri bought the rights in 1998 before persuading Boorman to direct about five years ago. "I describe it...
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My London
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 23, 2004
Subjects: Westwood, Vivienne
...GUNN Bookworm What were the last books you bought? Stupid White Men by Michael Moore and Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar - I usually buy them somewhere like Borders, or at airports. Memory lane What is your earliest London memory...
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encyclopedia articles on: Yourcenar Marguerite  - 2 results

 
 
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Yourcenar, Marguerite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE marg ret yoors nar , 1903 87, French writer, b. Belgium as Marguerite...The first woman elected (1980) to the prestigious French Academy, Yourcenar moved to the United States in 1939, became an American citizen in...
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Vercors , Nathalie Sarraute , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Marguerite Duras , Michel Butor , Roger Vailland, and Romain...Francoise Mallet-Joris, Jean Cau, Boris Vian , Marguerite Yourcenar , Gilbert Cesbron, Jean Louis Curtis, Pierre Daninos...


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