The Treatment of the Heroines in Representative Novels of François Mauriac
Description:
This study analyzes specific scenes in the novels dealt with in order to determine the type of women characters Mauriac has created. This study covers Mauriac's early, middle, and late periods as a novelist. The heroines are nearly all examined in relation to each other chronologically. The study shows that Mauriac first portrays a religious and simple heroine. The heroines become agnostic, if not atheistic in several of the subsequent novels. Through Therese, they become progressively more psy…
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Date:
May 1974
Creator:
Hendry, Linda Ruth
Partner:
UNT Libraries