Heroic tropes

Heroic Tropes examines the nature of the heroic figure in the French canon. In opposition to the criticism of the past, Pierrette Daly denies that the figure for the female hero is a mere reversal of the male. She considers memoirs, correspondence, confessions, and autobiographical works of fiction in seeking the nature of the female hero in terms that are independent of the male model. Through the ages, literary communities have validated men's stories while neglecting. Women's stories. Daly argues that, to compensate, women writers have found it necessary to construct alternative narrative…