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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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
...Sacrifice in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar Joan E. Howard Southern...Editions GALLIMARD for works by Marguerite Yourcenar: Le coup de grace...Each His Minotaur by Marguerite Yourcenar , translated by Dori...
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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
Subversive Subjects Marguerite Yourcenar as a young girl, c. 1910...Subversive Subjects Reading Marguerite Yourcenar Edited by Judith Holland...Subversive subjects : reading Marguerite Yourcenar / edited by Judith Holland...
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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
...Marina, 1892-1941 Fedra. 4. Yourcenar, Marguerite. Qui na pas son Minotaure...Difference of Fedra 65 3 Marguerite Yourcenar: Negotiating a Feminine...Carcanet Press Limited. Marguerite Yourcenar, En Pelerin et en etranger...
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...Wilde, Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Williams, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Wilson, Sir Angus Yourcenar, Marguerite Zapata, Luis Music Barber, Samuel Benjamin, Arthur Berners, Gerard Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Bernstein...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Colette H. Winn, Perry Gethner, Samia I. Spencer, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Women Authors--Encyclopedias, Women Authors, French--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women In Literature--Encyclopedias
...been "canonized": Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, Madeleine de Scudery, Mme...de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras. Critics, mostly male, had judged...experiences. Petroff shows that for Marguerite dOingt d. 1310 , prioress of a Carthusian...
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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...study 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 devoilement...notes de LOEuvre au Noir (3). Marguerite Yourcenar y parle des themes boschiens...
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L'Oeuvre Au Noir: Histoire D'Une Vie, Itinéraire D'Une Quête
Journal article by Nadia Harris; Symposium, Vol. 43, 1989
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...Memoires dHadrien LOEUVRE AU NOIR DE MARGUERITE YOURCENAR raconte la vie dun certain Zenon...lalchimie dans LOeuvre au Noir de Marguerite Yourcenar. Paris: Nizet, 1981. Yourcenar, Marguerite. LOeuvre au Noir in Oeuvres romanesques...
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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
...plausible. This is the answer of Marguerite Yourcenar, another lesbian historical...be under there." (50). Marguerite Yourcenars version of the mask is more...New York: Harcourt, 1993. Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian. Trans...
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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...Ibid., p. 191-192. (31.) Marguerite Yourcenar, Essais et memoires, p. 95...Arts, 1984, 2 volumes. Yourcenar, Marguerite. "Le Cerveau noir de Piranese...
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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...dialogue with Soap. It was titled with the citation from Yourcenar and unexpectedly poetic. Two gleaming basil leaves...
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Lyle Ashton Harris: CRG Gallery
Magazine article by Martha Schwendener; Artforum International, Vol. 42, November 2003
Subjects: Harris, Lyle Ashton--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions
...all titled "Memoirs of Hadrian," after a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar that takes the form of a letter from Emperor Hadrian...of visibility vis-a-vis race and gender. Just as Yourcenars letter recipient is never given a voice, Harriss...
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From Readers
Magazine article; World Watch, Vol. 13, May 2000
...of highway accidents, I made up my mind that I would never own a car. Thirty years later, I still havent. -- Marguerite Yourcenar, author of a book titled in English The Abyss. In it, a single paragraph turned me into a vegetarian. The hero...
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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, a...John Boorman). A display case on Yourcenar is one of the first exhibits...Hadrian got the young French Yourcenar, true love and melancholy; Neros...
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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 he...freedom that worries me, but the art of exercising it," Yourcenar has Hadrian muse. There are more details, only possibly...
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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...is an altogether more unsettling companion than Marguerite Yourcenars urbane philosopher-emperor," MacGregor boasts...
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The Affairs That Kept Paris Agog
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 9, 1996
Subjects: Mitterrand, Francois
...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 is also said to have...
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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
...Withnail 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 as...
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My London
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 23, 2004
Subjects: Westwood, Vivienne
...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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Legions of Admirers Honor Editor Plimpton
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 7, 2002
...wisdom and taste to publish all those French authors, including Celine, Francois Mauriac, Georges Simenon and Marguerite Yourcenar. Most important of all, "Youve given back to all of us the stuff of dreams," the ambassador said before affixing...


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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 de Crayencour. The first woman elected (1980) to the prestigious French Academy, Yourcenar moved to the United States in 1939...
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...detective-story writer Georges Simenon and the novelists Francoise Mallet-Joris, Jean Cau, Boris Vian , Marguerite Yourcenar , Gilbert Cesbron, Jean Louis Curtis, Pierre Daninos, Henri Queffelec, and Roger Peyrefitte. Theater At...


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