Mujeres fatales

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Femmes fatales

 

 

Arseneau, Mary. "Madeline, Mermaids, and Medusas in The Eve of St. Agnes." Papers on Language and Literature 33 (1997): 1-9.

Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1982.

Beauvoir, Simone de. "5. Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome." Introd. Elizabeth Fallaize (109-13). In Beauvoir, Feminist Writings. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: U of Illinois P, 2015. 114-26.*

Bornay, Erika. Las hijas de Lilith. Madrid: Cátedra, 1990.*

Doane, Mary Ann. Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Hierro, Jesús. "Rosa Peral, la femme fatale de la Guardia Urbana." ABC 16 April 2020.*

         https://www.abc.es/espana/catalunya/abci-rosa-peral-femme-fatale-guardia-urbana-202004161510_noticia.html

         2020

Lorente, Jesús Pedro. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." In Eduardo Laborda: Simbolismo barroco. Zaragoza: Cajalón, 2006. 81-124.*

Muro Munilla, Miguel Ángel. "Carmen: La construcción del texto y del mito español a partir del tópico de un viajero romántico francés." Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 33-34 (2007-8): 167-92. (Femmes fatales, stereotypes, gypsies, misogyny).

Online at Dialnet.*

         https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/3393504.pdf

Online at Academia.*

         https://www.academia.edu/55380453/

         2026

Ortega y Gasset, José. "Esquema de Salomé." From El Espectador, vol. 4. ("Incitaciones"). In El Espectador: Tomo III y IV. (El Arquero). Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1961. 205-10.* (Femme fatale).

Stott, Rebecca. The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death. (Women's Studies at York/Macmillan series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.*

 

 

 

Films

 

Gilda. Dir. Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth. 1946.

 

 

 

Literature

 

Casti. La Diavolessa.

Keats, John. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad." 1819, pub. 1820. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Arnold, 1997. 761-62.*

_____. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 845-47.*

Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets. many editions

_____. Macbeth.   many editions

_____. Antony and Cleopatra. many editions

Wilde, Oscar. Salomé. English production censored 1892.

_____. Salomé. French version published 1893. (Produced in Paris, Théâtre de L'Œuvre, 11 Feb. 1896).

_____. Salomé. Trans. Lord Alfred Douglas; illust. Aubrey Beardsley. 1894.

_____. Salomé. In Wilde, Works. London: Methuen, 1908.

_____. Salomé. In The Portable Oscar Wilde. Ed. Richard Aldington. New York: Viking, 1946.

_____. Salomé. In Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. London: Collins, 1966. 552-75.*

_____. Salomé. (GF 649). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.

_____. Salomé. In Wilde, Obras Completas. Ed. and trans. Julio Gómez de la Serna. Madrid: Aguilar, 1943. 1986. 749-74.*

 

 

 

Music

 

Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Opera. Libretto by L. Halévy and H. Meilhac, from Prosper Mérimée. Premiere at Paris, failure. Premiere at Vienna, 1875, posth. success. many editions.

_____. Carmen. Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Sherrill Milnes. The Ambrosian Singers. London Symphony Orchestra /Claudio Abbado. Recorded in Edinburgh Festival, 1977. (Deutsche Grammophon). Online audio. YouTube (Classical Music / Reference Recording) 30 June 2018.*

         https://youtu.be/NPPzNgBsN6g

         2021

 

 

See also Femininity; Fetishism; Seduction; Female monsters; Women's studies.

 

 

 

 

Hembras Monstruosas

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Female monsters

 

 

Arranz, Vidal. "El sexo en la era del género." Disidentia 22 Oct. 2020.* (Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin).

         https://disidentia.com/el-sexo-en-la-era-del-genero/

         2020

Cixous, Hélène. "Le rire de la Méduse". L'Arc (Simone de Beauvoir) 61 (1975): 39-54.

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs 1.4 (Summer 1976): 875-93.

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. In New French Feminisms. Ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron. Brighton: Harvester, 1981. 245-64.

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." In Critical Theory since 1965. Ed.. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahasse: UPs of Florida / Florida State UP, 1986. 1990. 309-21.*

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 732-47.*

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." In Literature in the Modern World. Ed. Dennis Walder. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990.

_____. "The Laugh of the Medusa." 1975. In Feminisms. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. Houndmills: Macmillan, n. d. 347-62.*

Francus, Marilyn. "The Monstrous Mother: Reproductive Anxiety in Swift and Pope." ELH (1994).*

Heiberg Madsen, Lea. "Medicine and Female Monstrosity in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Belinda Starling's The Journal of Dora Damage (2007)." In At a Time of Crisis: English and American Studies in Spain: Works from the 35th AEDEAN Conference, UAB/Barcelona 14-16 November 2011. Ed. Sara Martín et al. Barcelona: Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, U Autònoma de Barcelona / AEDEAN, 2012. 119-124.*

http://www.aedean.org/pdf_atatimecrisis/AtaTimeofCrisis_AEDEAN35_portada.pdf

         2012

Hidalgo, Pilar. "La sombra de Yocasta en la novela de mujeres." In First International Conference on English Studies: Past, Present and Future: Costa de Almería, 19-25 de Octubre, 1997. Ed. Annette Gomis et al. CD-ROM. Almería: U de Almería, n.d. [2001]*

Huyssen, Andreas. "4. The Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis." In Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. London: Macmillan, 1986. 65-81.*

Stead, Evanghélia. Le Monstre, le singe et le fœtus: Tératogonie et Décadence dans l’Europe fin-de-siècle. Geneva: Droz, 2004.

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

Vidal, César. "Mujeres asesinas de niños." La Voz  27 April 2018.*

         https://soundcloud.com/cesarvidal/programa-completo-270418

         2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

Monster. Writer and dir. Patty Jenkins. Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley, Scott Wilson. Musc by BT and Howard Paar. Coprod. Brent Morris. Prod. des. Edward T. McAvoy. Ed. Jane Kurson and Arthur Coburn. Photog. Steven Bernstein. Exec. prod. Sammy Lee, Meagan Riley-Grant, Stewart Hall, Andreas Grosch, Andreas Schmid. Prod. Charlize Theron, Mark Damon, Clark Peterson, Donald Kushner, Brad Wyman. Media 8 Entertainment / DEJ Productions / KW Productions / Denver & Delilah Films, 2003. DVD: Prism Leisure, 2005.* (Prostitute who is a serial killer).

Under the Skin. Dir. Jonathan Glazer. With Scarlett Johansson. 2013.

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

Coleridge, S. T. "Christabel." Poem. 1798-1800, pub. 1816. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 441-56.*

Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl. Hypertext fiction. Cambridge (MA): Eastgate Systems, 1995.  (Reworking of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein).

Keats, John. "Lamia." Poem. 1819, pub. 1820. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 856-72.*

King, Stephen. Misery. Novel. New York: Viking/Penguin, 1987.

_____. Misery. London: Hodder and Stoughton-New English Library.

Peralta, Carlos. "Rani." Story. In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 345-52. (Female monsters).

Philostratus. Life of Apollonius of Tyana. c. 200. Trans. F. C. Conybeare. (Loeb Classical Library). Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1960. (Lamia).

_____. Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Trans. F. C. Conybeare. Selection in Critical Theory since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. San Diego: Harcourt, 1971. 103-4.*

 

 

 

See also Monsters; Femmes fatales.