...Jerry C. Nash Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 Jerry C. Nash FICTIONAL EVIL AND THE READER'S SEDUCTION: RABELAIS'S CREATIONS OF "L'ESPRIT MALING" A mong other readers of Fran~ois Rabelais, Robert Griffin and M. A. Screech have written convincingly on the subject...

... that imputes evil designs to familiar entities. For scandal wears the clothes of familiarity. It approaches its victims and gets under their guard; it even gets close enough for the victims to feel its breath. It is only then that the latter see its true nature and, to alert everyone in the vicinity, let out...

... is a master in the art of metalepsis, the intervention of the author in the story. If lowe him anything, I presume it is this. PW and RJG: With regard to Reinhard Heydrich, you say that he was "un porc malefique et sans pitie mais ce n'etait pas Richard III" ("an evil and ruthless pig, but no Richard III...

... of this communication with the daimon. The word daimon has also been confused historically with demon or devil and is thus linked with the evil that generates Baudelaire's vision for flowers or objects of beauty and delicacy. In a post-Levinas world, we learn from Alain Finkielkraut that love is the basic model...

..., BOOK REVIEWS 377 by contrast "causes the destruction of the Arthurian world by rejecting all its moral coordinates" (76), his single-minded devotion to God's will thus constituting less a commitment to the cause of Ie bien than an ethics of destruction, jouissance, and evil. In his third chapter...

... to denounce social evils, and missionary zeal in the power of writing that she anticipates successfully placing readers in her perspective and transforming them (37,47-49). Notwithstanding Tristan's self-assurance, her argument takes water as quickly as the boat on which she travels. Flaws, the narrator...

...." Here Leo Bersani's notion, that (like Freud) Baudelaire is caught between the traditional (his religious convictions) and the radical (his innovative poetics) is useful in reminding us that the poet is continually caught in a dialectic, not only between these oppositions, but between Good and Evil. We...

.... WOMAN-HATING IN MARIE DE FRANCE'S BISCLAVRET 261 men became werewolves and lived in the woods. A werewolf is a savage beast: so long as it is in this rage, it devours humans and does great evil, dwelling in and moving about deep forests.) This is a zoological portrait whose elements can be ticked off...

... abominable, reinvents love. Evil is not sweet in the mouth. But the calamity and affliction, the dead weight of matter borne, the bodies torn, swollen, and eaten, lay the ground for the continued life of the spirit. Out of this terrain of remnants, what does it mean to believe? The rituals of death become...

... has been explained as evidence of a psychological mutilation complex, or as the memory of a childhood fright. 18 More simply, I believe the poet is following a tradition well established in the arts: a stunted, deformed body is the outward sign of inner evil; Pulcinella has two humps because he...

... the deeper Greco-Roman tradition uniting Europe (Beyond Good and Evil 376-78). As with Zola, however, Nietzsche's anti-anti-Semitism turns back in on itself. These anti-Semites, these enemies of Europe, are themselves inheritors 6. On this, see Maurice Samuels' contribution to the present volume. ZOLA...

... cueur, une arne et une chair" (489).12 Of course these appellations describe an ideal marriage that 'would have been,' had the Duchess not been the evil character she turns out to be from the start of the narrative. Likewise for the other symbiotic bonds, our analysis for the moment emphasizes...

... is unfinishedness, and in unfinishedness there is infinity." Even ugliness or evil can be part of poetry: "What we call evil we should call good if we could see the beginning and the end of it. Evil, whether in nature or in destiny, is a thing mysteriously begun by God which stretches beyond us into the invisible...

...," "totalitarianism," and even "oppression" do not merely have a history; they have been fashioned by history. Surely, the evils of autocracy and nation-state aggression have not always appeared as self-evident as they do to us (or so we flatter ourselves); nor have those evils always linked up, in such intimate...

... profess absolutely and without reserve this teaching: that science has no other object than truth-truth for its own sake, with no thought of any consequence, good or evil, regrettable or fortunate, that it might have in practice. He who allows himself-for some patriotic, religious or even moral motive...

... of predecessors such as Heine, Lely, and Pauvert, Rosset states: "To ignore Sade is to choose not to know part of ourselves, that inviolable part which lurks within each of us and which, eluding the light of reason, can, we have learned in this century, establish absolute evil as a rule of conduct and threaten...

... in Mon- taigne's Essais," 415-426 Matthieu-Castellani, Gisele, "Michael Riffaterre pour lire les poetes du XVIeme siecle," 91-103 Meltzer, Fran\oise, "Rupture and the Limits of Reading," 57-67 Molinie, Georges, "La Significativite litteraire," 45-50 Nash, Jerry C., "Fictional Evil and the Reader's...

... insistence on the heroine's depravity manipulates the reader to believe there will be a collapse, but Diane's evil reaps the recompense of innocence when her chicanery engenders the great good of "first love." It is not only that the story implies that Diane's superiority as an artist redeems, neutralizes...

... or savage Spaniards, evil French, perfidious Brits, a heroic “people’s war.” Greig reminds us that if the Napoleonic wars gave birth to what George Mosse famously called the “myth of the war experience,” this myth came in various shapes, sizes, and fonts. Specialists on this pivotal moment in the history...

... and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophuls, 1988), France is well-known for its documentary treatment of the Shoah, representing at times the banal or bureaucratic side of evil.1 Italian directors, however, have produced various fiction films centered on the grey areas of survival. This is the case of Kapo...