One Adam and nine Eves in Donald Siegel's "The Beguiled" and Giovanni Boccaccio's 3:1 of "The Decameron"
- Donald Siegel's 1971 film entitled "The Beguiled" is compared to Tale 1 of Day 3 from Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron". Both stories are about a man who arrives in a garden setting and finds nine sexually starved women. In Boccaccio's tale, a male gardener finds himself in a convent occupied by nine nuns with whom he proceeds to have sexual relations to everyone's satisfaction. Siegel's film is about a wounded soldier taken in at a girls' finishing school whose nine female residents become the objects of the hero's amorous attention. While Boccaccio adopts a philogynist tone with respect to the material, "The Beguiled" appears to be a virulently misogynist film projecting its female characters as jealous demons who end up mutilating and then killing their male suitor. Findings from evolutionary psychology pertaining to female jealousy and reproductive strategies are used to consider the respective attitudes toward women in the medieval tale and the twentieth-century film. Conclusions are drawn about the difficulty of placing either of the stories within a clear-cut philogynist or misogynist category.
Author: | Vladimir Tumanov |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-371287 |
URL: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11061-013-9364-2 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-013-9364-2 |
ISSN: | 0028-2677 |
ISSN: | 1572-8668 |
Parent Title (English): | Neophilologus |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Dodrecht u.a. |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/03/17 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2015/03/17 |
Tag: | Clint Eastwood; Donald Siegel; Evocriticism; Evolutionary Psychology; Giovanni Boccaccio; Jealousy; Misogyny; Philogyny; Reproductive Strategies; Sociobiology; The Beguiled; The Decameron |
GND Keyword: | Siegel, Don; Frauenfeindlichkeit <Motiv>; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Annotationi et discorsi sopra alcuni luoghi del Decameron; Evolutionspsychologie; Soziobiologie; Eifersucht <Motiv> |
Volume: | 98 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 18 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 12 |
Note: | Author's copy als Postprint, zuerst erschienen in Neophilologus : an international journal of modern and mediaeval language and literature, 2014, Volume 98, Issue 1, pp 1-12. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 368896250 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte / BDSL-Klassifikation: 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte > 04.03.00 Vergleichende Literaturgeschichte |
03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.03.00 Studien | |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |