Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and Francois Mauriac

Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and Francois Mauriac

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Wansink, Susan
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
EAN: 9780820436616
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This book compares selected novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) with those of François Mauriac (1885-1970), breaking new ground by revealing the strong thematic parallels and certain stylistic affinities in the authors' presentations of female characters and society. It focuses on the female characters in Effi Briest (1895) and Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927) as victims of a rigid, yet degenerating patriarchal society, and on the women in Frau Jenny Treibel (1892) and Genitrix (1924) as possessive dominators. These presentations reveal the injustices and insufficiencies of a social system on the verge of decline, existent in both authors' fictive worlds.
EAN 9780820436616
ISBN 0820436615
Binding Hardback
Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication date February 1, 1998
Pages 139
Language English
Dimensions 230 x 160
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Wansink, Susan
Edition Neuausg.
Series Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures