...-GRILLET’S VOYEUR By SEYMOURS. WEINER* The French novel has recently witnessed the promulgation of dicta and practices which for some sound the knell of that perennially dying form, and which for others indicates that the modern novel is investi- gating exciting new...

... and kind, each charac- ter seeks strength through asserting his listener’s vulnerability. The narrator adopts an aggressive role and imposes a passive one. This strategy has illuminating similarities to the voyeur’s more obviously neurotic behavior. Like a narrator continually recasting his...

... disturbing, however, than statements of which the fol- lowing, about Kobbe-Grillet, is a significant if extreme example: “Elsewhere, he has said that during the writing of Le Voyeur he felt a temptation to check his own image of a seagull against the reality, a temptation which he bravely...

... to be true, for Leontes, feeling is paramount, reason pursuant. Othello takes his cue from his otherness, his social marginality; Le- ontes is inspired by purely erotic sensation brought on by a kind of visionary voyeurism. Having instructed his wife to play her role as wife and woman (i.e...

.... Hartman asks: “Are we witnesses who confirm the truth of what happened in the face of the world-destroying capacities of pain, the distortions of torture, the sheer unrepresentability of terror, and the repression of the dominant accounts? Or are we voyeurs fascinated with and repelled by exhibitions...

... voyeur: “I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used . . . to borrow me to read to them; their mothers sometimes with them; and both mothers and daughters...

... the sanguine minds of American schol- ars. The popular succl?s de scandule deservedly enjoyed in 1950 by the first volume of the reading edition, Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763,encour- aged this expectation. But as volume followed volume, it became evident that voyeurism is subject to the law...

... it substitutes the psychologically viable notion of scattered identity. 2. “Stop this day and night with me” A second question concerns the kind of relationship Whitman establishes with his audience, given that his sexuality is essentially solitary. Do we participate or remain voyeurs? Does his...

... also Donald C. Mell, Jr., “Irony, Poetry, and Swift: Entrapment in ‘On Poetry: A K;~psodyPLL, 18 (1982): 310-24; and Richard H. Rodino, “Varieties of Vexatious Experience in Swift and Others,” PLL, 18 (1982): 325-47. Louise K. Barnett, “Voyeurism in Swift’s Poetry,” SLitl, 17 (1984): 17-26...

...” 73 voyeurism and sentimentality to which documentary is so often heir.18 Rather, as her “note” at the end of U.S. I indicates, she wants to “extend the document” through the compositional practices and aes- thetic expectations of modernist poetry.19 To this end, she takes a page...

.... Accordingly, different registers meet violently; they force an encounter between liberty and spectacle, private life and public denunciation. Not all literary texts, however, defend the voyeur’s mission. Against Marti’s project, in which passion must be controlled, other writers use melodrama...

... on the sidelines of life, a “voyeur” increasingly withdrawn from contact ; Goethe’s participates at every moment, increasingly active and increas- ingly involved up to the final tactile “sich schlang.” Each poem cul- minates in a Steigcrung: George’s poem may be likened to a tower with windows which...

... Press, Romance Series, No. 9, 1965. x + 368 pp. $8.50. Hiddleston, James A. L’Univers de Jules Supemielle. Paris: Librairie Jose Corti, 1965. v 3.236 pp. Lecuyer, Maurice. Rkalitk et imagination duns Le Grand Meaulnes et Le Voyeur. Houston: William Marsh Rice University, Rice University...

... as sexual roles become confused. Love turns to horror, as he becomes aware of himself as highly neurotic, as a sophisticated voyeur, too totally inhibited to bring his masochistic self-communication to an end with any kind of “objective test.”l I would argue that the continuing critical...

... leave to silence the rest of this painful scene,” pointing to the private parts of the narrative but refusing to expose them to a voyeur.11 Remembering Manzano’s precautions against required intimacy, or attending to them for the first time, we may begin to doubt a whole series...

....” It is not art in the romantic sense of disinterested “fine art,” but rather an action and an involvement in action. The sermon is a part of the Church’s liturgy. One views and listens to a play, but participates in the liturgy: to attend a church service simply as a voyeur, to see what is going...

... shelter. And in this room Keaton faces other voyeurs as well: as the window exposes him to the outside world, the mirror seduces him with self-perception. Both must be covered up as quickly as possible. The mirror, like the framed looking-glass Philippe Soupault once exhibited at a show...

... innocence when falsely accused of stealing (p. 229). But her mode of theft now begins to take on an aspect of caricature. Without knowing why, most uneasy in the disguise, she dresses as a beggar in coarse, despicable rags and -the voyeur in addition to the thief-walks about “peering and peep...

... two different, but related, male responses to the anxiety produced by viewing the forbidden female body: a fetishizing of “the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfy- ing in itself,” or a sadistic form of voyeurism that creates pleasure by “ascertaining guilt...

...-fetishist Edmond, who submits to the incestuous seduction encouraged by Gaudet (fig. 1). In some cases 31  See, e.g., pages 503 (Edmond’s voyeurism, with an engraving of nude bath- ers), 522 (his adulterous tryst), 535 (Mme Parangon’s lesbianism), 539 (Edmond’s foot fetishism), 540 – 41 (Edmond...