{"id":205,"date":"2018-11-29T02:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2018-11-29T23:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T23:59:27","slug":"casey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Graziosi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Reflecting the Gaze<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving beyond Lacanian theories of the \u201cmirror stage,\u201d Angela Carter demands we \u201csee\u201d ourselves, and women’s desire to be seen as more than just objects to be consumed. Carter’s work shows how women’s bodies and women’s desires are finally recognized only when the women can see themselves, fully, with their own eyes. This recognition is often obstructed by the \u201cmale gaze,\u201d but may be supplemented by mirrors, which allow women to look upon their own bodies and prioritize their own perspectives. In Carter\u2019s collection of short stories, we see an emphasis on reflections and mirrored surfaces that range from hungry male monsters\u2019 eyes, to water, to actual mirrors. This paper, then, will examine the need for mirrors, and the way mirrors reflect a liberated, embodied way forward for women, in the Bloody Chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Werewolf Nose Best<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For decades, branding villains with large, pointed, and crooked noses has been linked to anti-Semitic tropes, popularized in the 1800s; but what of those villains with no nose at all? In Marie de France\u2019s 12th century short story, \u201cBisclavret,\u201d the werewolf of that same name bites off his wife\u2019s nose as retribution for stealing his clothes and forcing him to remain in canine form. The distinct intention behind this act is emphasized by the narrator\u2019s rhetorical query: \u201cwhat worse punishment could he have inflicted upon her?\u201d The real questions, however, ought to be: why is losing a nose more devastating than losing any other part of one\u2019s body? And why did this mutilation reproduce itself in the wife\u2019s female offspring? In this presentation, I will delve into such questions in order to evaluate the implications of Bisclavret\u2019s revenge, specifically as they pertain to misogyny, \u201cothering,\u201d and human\/animal binaries. By reading the removal of the wife\u2019s nose as more than a negligible detail of a larger act, we may better understand what registered as \u201cmonstrous\u201d in the 12th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Abstract Reflecting the Gaze Moving beyond Lacanian theories of the \u201cmirror stage,\u201d Angela Carter demands we \u201csee\u201d ourselves, and women’s desire to be seen as more than just objects to be consumed. Carter’s work shows how women’s bodies and women’s desires are finally recognized only when the women can see themselves, fully, with their … Continue reading Casey Graziosi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/400-2018f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}