TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tumanov, Vladimir
T1  - One Adam and nine Eves in Donald Siegel's "The Beguiled" and Giovanni Boccaccio's 3:1 of "The Decameron"
T2  - Neophilologus
N2  - 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.
KW  - Siegel, Don
KW  - Frauenfeindlichkeit <Motiv>
KW  - Boccaccio, Giovanni
KW  - Annotationi et discorsi sopra alcuni luoghi del Decameron
KW  - Evolutionspsychologie
KW  - Soziobiologie
KW  - Eifersucht <Motiv>
KW  - Evocriticism
KW  - Donald Siegel
KW  - The Beguiled
KW  - Clint Eastwood
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Philogyny
KW  - Giovanni Boccaccio
KW  - The Decameron
KW  - Evolutionary Psychology
KW  - Sociobiology
KW  - Reproductive Strategies
KW  - Jealousy
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37128
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-371287
UR  - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11061-013-9364-2
SN  - 0028-2677
SN  - 1572-8668
N1  - 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.
VL  - 98
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dodrecht u.a.
ER  -