The Politics of Seduction in Literature Open Access

Primerano, Dane (2010)

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Relying on the scholarship and criticism of Shoshana Felman and Jean Baudrillard, an analysis of seductive strategies in four texts.

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1. Introduction........................................................................................................1

2. 'Weak[ness] in Health': Reparative Functions of the Parasite and Seduction in
....S.T. Coleridge's 'Christabel'...................................................................................32


3. The Seductive Accent of Truth: Tone, Image and the Recursivity of Signs in
....Stendhal's Armance.............................................................................................50


4. Portable Milieus and Proliferating Signs: Despatialization, Gender and
....Seduction in The Wings of the Dove.......................................................................64


5. Fascination and Seduction in 'Nausicaa'...................................................................81


6. Conclusion.........................................................................................................92


7. Works Cited.......................................................................................................95

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