Roland Barthes states that all literary descriptions originate from a previously "framed" referent, understood first of all in pictorial terms. It may therefore be interesting to compare the different descriptive practices ...

At the beginning of the twentieth-century, a former teacher who became a novelist and newspaper writer, well-known even beyond the borders of her native Switzerland, buys a « house of her own » both cozy and considerably ...

Even today, it is far from easy for a woman author to achieve recognition while working in an almost exclusively feminine genre, despised by the mostly male critics who wield power in the symbolic domain. Authors of romance ...

The adventurous life and the complex oeuvre of André Léo (1824-1900) have long escaped the interest of literary historians and critics. It is only recently that this woman author has begun to emerge from a century-long ...

Quatre écrivaines du Nord – Pas-de-Calais, nées entre 1929 et 1949, Marie-Paul Armand, Annie Degroote, Raymonde Menuge-Wacrenier et Gilberte-Louise Niquet ont publié à elles quatre depuis 1985 une trentaine de romans ou ...