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Inspired by nineteenth-century accounts of creation based on the figure of Prometheus, this article examines the feminization of the myth from George Sand to Rachilde. The novels Méphis by Flora Tristan and Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde are studied to understand how women novelists wrote about the mythical imagination embodied in Mary Shelley's modern Prometheus and the ways in which their texts depict the creation of Man and the difference between the sexes. Modern stealers of fire and demiurges, these authors also consider the liberation of the female character and call into question a culture centred on male norms. This study focuses on feminine power based on the critique of social institutions in these novels, a critique expressed via the love dynamic portrayed.
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AbstractMarie-Claire Blais' novel, La Belle Bête, presents a symbolic incest and its violence. This article analyses the failure of this heritage (or filiation) and the function of identification as the process by which the subject assumes its identity.
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