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Bram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order, undermining the supremacy of the white male -- and shows the devastating historical effects of this portrayal. Dijkstra begins his analysis with the 1915 silent film A...
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"An exquisite new translation of Colette's tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man. Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette's finest achievements, in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of the Belle Époque, Chéri tells the story of Léa, a courtesan at the end of a successful...
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Le célèbre monsieur Racine; écrit une pièce de théâtre pour les élèves de madame de Maintenon, les Colombes du Roi-Soleil, L'occasion pour s'illustrer et, qui sait,?, être remarquée par le Roi. L'excitation est à son comble parmi les jeunes filles. Y aura-t-il un rôle pour chacune d'entre elles ? [4e de couv.]