Aimer et mourir : love, death, and women's lives in texts of French expression
Aimer et Mourir offers a wide-ranging selection of essays that collectively address how, from the Middle Ages to the present, the notions of love and death get inextricably associated with the narratives that are women's lives. Some of the essays tackle male writers' representations that link women and, in particular, women's sexuality, with death, resulting in the figures of the femme fatale, the woman in parturition, and the desiring vampire. A number of essays reiterate that women's hyper ..
eBook, English, 2009
Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2009