Laughing at Unbearable Urges: Reshaping the Male-Authored Script of Desire
Article | Contributor(s): Dora E. Polachek
As Pierre Champion noted a half a century ago, “ The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles open a secret door into the house of men of that time.” The misogynous aspect of these novellas, designed to inspire laughter, is evident in most of the stories dealing with masculine drives and uncontrollable desires...