SEDUCTION & THEORY: Readings of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric

Introduction / Dianne Hunter -- The Uncanny Lure Of Manet's Olympia / Charles Bernheimer -- Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel, And Female Performance / Judith Mayne -- Seductive Spaces : Private Fascinations And Public Fantasies In Popular Cinema / Sharon Willis -- Hysteria And The Seduction Of Theory / Martha Noel Evans -- Freud And Fliess : Homophobia And Seduction / Shirley Nelson Garner -- Freud And Dora : Blindness And Insight / Lawrence Frank -- Seduction And The Voice Of The Text : Heart Of Darkness And The Good Soldier / Claire Kahane. Anne Sexton And The Seduction Of The Audience / Alicia Ostriker -- Seduced By Witches : Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter In The Context Of New England Witchcraft Fictions / Gabriele Schwab -- Confessing Lacan / Susan David Bernstein -- Baudrillard's Bad Attitude / Andrew Ross -- Romancing The Philosophers : Luce Irigaray / Carolyn Burke. Dianne Hunter, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.