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...Jerry C. Nash 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 of evil and the Devil, and especially on the moral and religious...

... of the nineteenth century. By examining commercial ephemera produced and distributed in Barcelona, alongside theories of male homosociality and empire, this essay demonstrates how Spanish men—specifically Catalans—commercialized fantasies of bourgeois masculinity, thus contributing to the consolidation of cultures...

... of whom are known to be women. After presenting the quarrel texts written by Adelaïde d’Espinassy; Joséphine de Monbart; and Anne d’Aubourg de La Bove, comtesse de Miremont; the article explores why and how these women engaged in such a highly publicized, male-dominated quarrel. They intervened...

... of poems written in Arabic or Hebrew in the Romance dialect of Andalusia) and a Galician-Portuguese cantiga d’amigo (songs in which a young girl laments the absence of her lover). Lyric dispossession can affirm female desire despite its dominance as a male solitary presence in the courtly tradition...

... portrayed the male relationship to discourse in powerful terms. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the majority of formulations on this topic have cast a rather unfavorable light on the dominant role that man has assumed in manipulating language and its signifying processes. Helene Cixous...

..., authored by male contemporaries. This collection, entitled Escriz de divers poetes, a la louenge de Louize Labe Lionnoize, has received relatively little critical attention to date, yet offers an invaluable glimpse into the world in which Labe published.1 The Escriz both document and seek to shape...

... on the grounds that it contributes to reinforcing sexist sexual and gender stereotypes that show women as passive, always available, and eager to satisfy male sexual needs and fantasies to the exclusion of their own. Accordingly, her representation supports the dominant male culture through which women are kept...

... appears in the sultan's court, she follows the pattern established in the chansons and rejects her Saracen attachments in favor of her Frankish husband.5 Kinoshita, however, argues against reading the Fille merely as a cipher for male Frankish interests. Although the erotic conquest of Saracen women...

... more than paternalistic advice and sweet talk to toe the line that led to the presumed satisfaction of all. One might assume therefore that male authors with such views would have had little to fear from their male peers, let alone from the elite women of leisure whom they presumed to instruct on how...

...: a lie, a deception, or an omission2; physical separation, either geographic or architectural3; or the neglect of a magical substance.4 In each text, the suffering of the couple yields reflection on how males and females comport themselves when entranced by love and faced with its obstacles. Bisclavret...

... of the various male protagonists in these authors' works as transgressions of the two-gender model. This dynamic structures Klee's three-chapter book. The first chapter, historicist in nature, examines nineteenth-century discourses on the body in general. The second discusses how Huysmans and Wilde absorbed...

... is an 'expulsion' followed by a 'repulsion' that founds and consolidates culturally hegemonic identities along sex/race/sexuality axes of differentiation" (133). In what follows I will argue that for Perrault women indeed incarnate the abject, and in order to alleviate any threat women pose to male authority...

... lodged in the public mind that almost any mention of Athos and com­pany is bound to prompt images of idealized male friendship, of unstinting camaraderie.1 In the fictions of Alexandre Dumas père, the musketeers never tire of alluding to the bonds of friendship that bind them. Often, they speak...

... this chain of similes, Christine is, in the end, like a woman; but she is a rather queer woman, a man doing drag as a woman. She has become a queer version of womanhood created by foolish men. She no longer resembles, Reason says, the truth about womanhood, but has become a strange male fantasy about women...

... with a man, or, as Proust has Swann and Marcel suspect, women may actually be having sex with each other. In her book Proust s Lesbianism, Elisabeth Ladenson has argued that the anxiety caused by lesbian relations for these jealous male lovers is due to the fact that friendship or sex between women...

... epidemic, rather gay. (Jews, though, really lived there; gays just visited.) And any such subculture, like the Caron-Gottlieb bond, is better considered to be friendship-based than as at all familial. One also learns about gay or rather gay male identity. Caron's position-if not subject position-is, to my...

... origins from the male picaresque. Its heroine is typically a prostitute. Society treated prostitutes ambivalently, as the study shows. Contrary to other issues of poverty, BOOK REVIEWS 359 prostitution was accepted, as a form of providing for poor women and as "protect[ing] the purity of marriageable...

... passages of Louis Antoine de Saint-­Just s Fragments sur les institutions républicaines (1793 94) in which the Conventionnel attempted to devise a formal, public model of friendship in which friends as presumptively male as the citizen was presumptively un citoyen ­would declare their bonds in official...

... Lamartine's was met with contempt and mockery? The answer Boutin provides for this question holds few surprises: the same "feminine" voice that so enchanted male readers in Desbordes-Valmore since it matched what men thought poetry written by a woman should be, disgusted them in Lamartine, for he renounced...