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Article: Beyond 'Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Beyond 'Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard. By Cathy Helen Wardle. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 69) London: Maney. 2007. 145 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-63-7.
Beyond 'Ecriture feminine' is the first full-length book study on Jeanne Hyvrard, a celebrated French writer, thinker, and economist, who is nevertheless relatively neglected in the critical literature. Criticism on Hyvrard has tended to focus on her depiction of the mother-daughter relationship, gender, and madness in order to categorize her writing in terms of 'ecriture feminine' and to link her with other contemporary French women ...