Nicole Ward Jouve
Nicole Ward Jouve (born 1938) is a French writer and literary critic, who writes in both French and English. For most of her career Ward Jouve lived and worked in England.[1] She is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York.[2]
Ward Jouve has been influenced by French literary critics such as Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous. She writes in French, before translating herself into English.[1]
Works
[edit]- Spectre du Gris, 1977. Translated to English as Shades of Grey, London: Virago, 1981.
- Baudelaire: A Fire to Conquer Darkness. London: Macmillan, 1979.
- L'éntremise. Paris: Des femmes, 1980.
- Un homme nommé Zopolski. Paris: Des femmes, 1983.
- "The Street-cleaner": The Yorkshire Ripper Case on Trial. London: Boyars, 1986.
- Colette. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
- White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography. London; New York : Routledge, 1991.
- (with Sue Roe, Susan Sellers, and Michèle Roberts) The Semi-Transparent Envelope: Women Writing, Feminism and Fiction. London: Boyars, 1994.
- The house where salmon perched. London: Rear Window, 1994.
- Female Genesis: Creativity, Self and Gender. Cambridge: Polity, 1997,
- Petits moments d'une femme qui rêvait d'être poète. Paris: Le préau des collines, 2005. With photographs by Jacques Le Sanff.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Roberts, Michèle (1999). "Ward Jouve, Nicole". In Lorna Sage (ed.). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. pp. 651–2. ISBN 0-521-49525-3.
- ^ Professors Emeritus and Honorary Fellows, University of York. Accessed 15 November 2020.
