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A Study Of Baudelaire's Symbols Of The Feminine In Les Fleurs Du Mal, M. Allison Harris

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Using French and American feminist theory, I analyze Charles Baudelaire's symbols in Les Fleurs du Mal in an attempt to come to terms with symbolic representations of the female that are at once traditional and transgressive.

By examining the images of solids (statues, jewels, metals), lesbians and woman's hair which appear frequently in Baudelaire's text, I reveal Baudelaire's desire to eliminate a woman's generative power and her association with the procreative cycle of nature. His desire for a preoedipal union with the maternal female becomes evident in his early poems and his poems on the subject of a woman's hair. …

La Renaissance En France: Quelques Contributions De Ronsard Et De Du Bellay A La PoeśIe Franc̨Aise, Leyla Audi Peck Waddell

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Trois Classes Sociales Dans La Terre, L'Assommoir Et Germinal D'Emile Zola, Janet Adair Evans

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Le Role De L'Amour Dans Certains Romans De Balzac, Le Lien

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L'Assommoir Et Une Page D'Amour, Une Étude De Contraste Chez Emile Zola, Maxime V. Parienti

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Le Dualisme Paradoxal D'Albert Camus: Les Essais Philosophiques Et Les Romans, Gene Lee Evans

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