Creative Contradictions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20067889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Holmes (0000-0001-9079-3582, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Pages | 8-24 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Colette (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-21375-7_2 |
| OpenAlex | W4213331692 |
| ISBN | 9781349213757 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Looking back, Colette perceived her childhood as a time of great happiness that radiated out from the safe centre of her mother's love to make the world beyond both secure and desirable. In her early fiction and in autobiographical texts rhapsodic images of girlhood contrast with the compromises and constraints of the adult woman, and since in Colette's own life a happy rural childhood ended with marriage to the faithless Willy and an attendant move to Paris, it is not surprising that critics and biographers should have viewed this transition as crucial to the writer's life and work. The dominant version of Colette's life opposes childhood innocence to adult betrayals, a lost paradise to harsh reality, the pastoral world of a country childhood to the cultural, man-made world of the city
Art · Art history · Happiness · Innocence · Paradise · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · African history and culture studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · North African History and Literature · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |