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...Alani Hicks-Bartlett Abstract This article studies the representation of the myth of Pygmalion in the Roman de la Rose , from the proleptic signaling of the myth in Guillaume de Lorris’s opening half of the work—through its counterpart in the tale of Narcissus, specifically—to Jean de Meun’s later...

... de M. de Balzac . Ed. Jean-A. Ducourneau. Vol. 14 . Paris: Bibliophiles de l'originale, 1842 . 283 -307. 32 vols. Barthes, Roland. La chambre claire: Note sur la photographie . Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma/Gallimard, Seuil, 1980 . Bauer, Douglas. “The Function of Pygmalion...

... the portrayal of education in the dedicatory letter and the novel, readers learn that the structures that might have upheld the bildungsroman’s implicit promise are in short supply. The same dynamic is reiterated through classical topoi like the stories of Pygmalion and Zeuxis. These artistically grounded...

... place de Goethe une grosse pierre, le Sphinx qu’aucune puissance n’a pu dégager de ses sables au désert, et les lettres de Bettina peuvent avoir lieu très bien. Au rebours de la fable de Pygmalion, plus Bettina écrit, plus Goethe se pétrifie, plus ses lettres sont glaciales” (1335; “Put in Goethe’s...

.... Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998 . ____. Proper Names . Trans. Michael B. Smith. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996 . Miller, J. Hillis. Versions of Pygmalion . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990 . Pepper, Thomas. “Er, or Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul...

...: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post Revolutionary France . New York: Palgrave, 2001 . Winnett, Susan. “Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure.” PMLA 105.3 ( 1990 ): 505 –18. Ziolkowski, Theodore. “The Haunted Portrait.” Disenchanted Images: A Literary...