...Chimène Bateman Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Chimene Bateman THE LYONNAISE MEDUSA: LOUISE LABE IN THE POETRY OF OLIVIER DE MAGNY 1. Introduction Louise Labe's 1555 CEuvres appeared with a substantial appendix: a collection of twenty-four poems in her praise...

... remedies this anxiety by enacting a symbolic dismemberment, akin to the beheading of the Medusa, which takes place by means of a division of labor whose object is the Sirens' body and voice. The sailors agree to see but not to listen to the Sirens. Odysseus, on the other hand, can hear the Sirens...

...), 401 Banfield, Ann, " 'Proust's Pessimism' as Beckett's Counter-Poison," 187 Bateman, Chimene, "The Lyonnaise Medusa: Louise Labe in the Poetry of Olivier de Magny," 451 Bernard, Claudie, Le Romantisme. Du Bouleversement des lettres dans la France post-revolutionnaire (Claude Millet), 395 Billing...

...-catching images - entombed women, jewelencrusted Medusas, exotically suggestive flowers - that seem straight out of Freud's breviary of psychoanalysis, The Interpretation of Dreams. They dream of Woman, Nature, the Real, but as notions only approached via elaborately lurid exercises in disavowal...

... for the psychoanalytically-inspired reader. Dip into Huysmans, Rodenbach or Rachilde, and there are exemplary instances of narcissism, melancholia and morbid sexuality. The Decadents supply eye-catching images - entombed women, jewelencrusted Medusas, exotically suggestive flowers - that seem straight out of Freud's...

...' landmark essay, "The Laugh of the Medusa," ranks at once among both the most well-known and the most virulent condemnations of the male's usurpation of semiotic primacy. Cixous contends that this situation has produced highly deleterious effects for women and their ability to write their own stories: Men...

.... - - - . Teoria poetica y estetica, trade Carmen Santos. Madrid: Visor, colI. La Balsa de la Medusa, n° 39, 1990. Pp. 208. - - - . Paul Valery. Werke, vol. 2 [Dialoge und Theater], sous la dire de Karl Alfred Bliiher. Francfort: Insel Verlag, 1990. Pp. 509. - - - . Eupalinos, sous la dire de Karl Alfred Bliiher...

... mort , which dwells on doubles, obsession, and fatal resemblance. 5. Joyce O. Lowrie reads the reflection of the virgins on the soldiers’ armor as a play on the myth of Perseus and Medusa, just as the novel recalls Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Saint John and Salomé, Hamlet...

.... Discipline and Punish. New York: Vintage, 1979. Foucault, Michel. "The Repressive Hypothesis." The History of Sexuality. Vol. I. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1978. Gallagher, Lowell. Medusa's Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Greenblatt...