Disguise and the gendering of royal authority in Corneille's 'Clitandre.' (playwright Pierre Corneille)
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Disguise and the gendering of royal authority are themes of Corneille's first tragi-comedy 'Clitandre au l'innocence delivree' (1631). The play has a cross-dressed anti-heroine who can only be rehabilitated when she gives up masculine clothing and is compelled to marry, thereby having her sexuality regulated and in the service of the monarch. She could not take up the monastic life she desired. That would take her from the family unit and not be politically or ideologically acceptable. The play underlines the primacy of marriage and the king's authority, which granted masculinity or femininity, that is power, more than anatomy did.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1998
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Orphans and others: gender and narrativity in Maupassant's "L'Orphelin."
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The treatment of gender in Guy de Maupassant's "L'Orphelin" is discussed in relation to narrative technique. Topics include Maupassant's supposed misogyny, the narrative portrayal of the dichotomy of gender-based oppression, the indirect narrative strategy, the role of the gaze in the polarization of gender, semiological idiosyncrasies of names in Maupassant, and the subsumption of the male authorial figure.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1999
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Genet and Cixous: the intersext
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The intertextual relationship between Helene Cixous and Jean Genet can be looked at in terms of sexuality, extending Cixous's concept of 'sext,' a hybridization of sex and text, to intertextuality or 'intersexts.' Cixous described Genet's writing as 'feminine,' but this did not mean that she regarded Genet as an 'honorary woman' or a feminist. Genet investigates his unconscious femininity in his writing.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1999
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