Background
Jouve, Nicole Anne Ward was born on July 6, 1938 in Marseille, Provence, France. Arrived in England, 1962. Daughter of Andre Julien and Marcelle (Bricard) Jouve.
(The appraisals here of a broad range of women's writing s...)
The appraisals here of a broad range of women's writing suggests a different direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does intellectual debate and textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail. In addressing the need for the critic to say "I" and to own judgements and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently impersonal third person, the author points up some of the shortcomings of much prevailing "feminist" analysis, challenging the foundations of the Anglo-American feminist idea. Purposely avoiding the "totalizing" effect of much academic criticism, the writer/critic finds a different format and methodology for her insights and observations on a range of writers, from Doris Lessing to Helene Cixous. Her analyses of the links between criticism and autobiography enable her to highlight the absurdity of attempting to write in the light of recent critical and scientific knowledge as if the self were a stable, unified construct.
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Jouve, Nicole Anne Ward was born on July 6, 1938 in Marseille, Provence, France. Arrived in England, 1962. Daughter of Andre Julien and Marcelle (Bricard) Jouve.
Licence, Sorbonne, Paris, 1960. Agrégation, Sorbonne, Paris, 1962. Ancienne eleve, Ecole Normale Supérieure Jeures Fills, Paris, Sevres, France, 1962.
Assistant, tutor Cambridge University, England, 1962-1963. Assistant lecturer York University, England, 1963-1969, lecturer England, 1970-1979, senior lecturer England, 1979-1984. Maitre-assistant Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, 1975-1976.
Reader York University, England, 1985-1988, professor English and related literature England, since 1988. Visiting lecturer University Alberta, Canada, 1969-1970. Participant French radio and television work.
Participant radio and television work British Broadcasting Corporation, England.
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Member Amnesty International, London, 1984-2000. Member Comparative Literature Association, Network, Society des Etudes Romantiques.
Married Anthony Ward, September 5, 1962. Children: Gilles, Cathy, Fabrice.