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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold

Levin, JaninaTemple University. Libraries2010

The cuckold has been a neglected character in Western literary history, subject to derision and often cruel comic effects. Yet three major modern novelists portrayed the cuckold as a protagonist: Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary, Henry James in The Golden Bowl, and James Joyce in Ulysses. This …

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Curbing the Cuckold-Maker: The Transformation of the Restoration Rake in English Comedy, 1660-1686

Dempsey, Cole, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science2019

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"THE FORGERIES OF JEALOUSY": SHAKESPEARE'S CUCKOLDRY

ST. PIERRE, RONALD LEO

<p>Cuckoldry is a complex of terms, ideas, injunctions and stereotypes attached to the notion that a wife's infidelity transformed her husband into a horned beast called a "cuckold." This complex, or lore of cuckoldry, was not merely a literary tradition but a popular conception which was …

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VISUALIZING MASCULINITY: MEN, FAMILY, AND COUNTRY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PRINT CULTURE

Owens, Eileen GraceTemple University. Libraries2016

… Specifically, I look at portrayals of the cuckold and the bachelor—tropes of male identity that deviated from the ideal notions of the French man—and how printed images reflected, commented on, and shaped the ways in which conventional French masculinity was imagined. Examining these …

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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency

Barkin, DorisThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

… through a close examination of the tropes of the cuckold and the codpiece as presented in English dramatic works of the early modern period: I examine codpiece and cuckoldry discourses side by side, to see how one informs the other, and to perceive to what extent masculinity is affected and …

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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

Andel, Nicole2017

… culture.</p><p> The Lovers' Purgatory and the Cuckold's Purgatory, for example, focus cultural anxieties about fidelity and Reformation anxieties about divorce (Chapter 4). The application of metaphors of purgatorial suffering to both male and female anxieties about romantic relationships …

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Shame in the Fabliaux

Brown, Scott

In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre …

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