The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers's L'Eve FutureU.N.C. Department of Romance Languages, 1996 - 148 pages |
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... Eve future , Alicia Clary and Evelyn Habal represent a period of decay of the sculptural figure , and a decay of the Romantic ideal . In terms of reproduction , all the women of L'Eve future are " sterile " : Hadaly is a sexual being ...
... Eve future , Alicia Clary and Evelyn Habal represent a period of decay of the sculptural figure , and a decay of the Romantic ideal . In terms of reproduction , all the women of L'Eve future are " sterile " : Hadaly is a sexual being ...
Page 103
... Evelyn Habal becomes , then , the first screen star ever filmed , in this literary prescience of things to come . Edison's short film - actually two films - allows for the combi- nation of the potentials of the phonograph and photograph ...
... Evelyn Habal becomes , then , the first screen star ever filmed , in this literary prescience of things to come . Edison's short film - actually two films - allows for the combi- nation of the potentials of the phonograph and photograph ...
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Villiers's L'Eve Future Marie Lathers. illness is , in fact , the excess that attracts Doctor Edison to her case . She is a " hybrid " hysteric who cannot be cured and must therefore be replaced . Evelyn Habal , whom Edison views as a ...
Villiers's L'Eve Future Marie Lathers. illness is , in fact , the excess that attracts Doctor Edison to her case . She is a " hybrid " hysteric who cannot be cured and must therefore be replaced . Evelyn Habal , whom Edison views as a ...
Contents
Tekhné State of the Art and LEve future by John Anza | 9 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 17 |
Representational Texts | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Albert Londe android animated artificial artist aura Barthes's Baudelaire Baudelaire's beauty bibelot Blade Runner camera century Charcot cinema construction copy critics Cros's cure death Deckard Delusions and Dreams discourse Edison essay Evelyn Habal fabrication female body fetish fictional film fin de siècle foot fragment Frankenstein Freud future's Gautier gender Gortz Gradiva Hadaly Hadaly's Hanold hypnosis hypnotic hysteria hysteric hysteric's ical ideal feminine ison L'Eve future limb literary literature Lord Ewald machine male maternal mechanical modern monstrous Moses Moses's mother museum narrator nature nineteenth nineteenth-century novel object original painting paralysis Paris photograph photography photosculpture Pompeii pose privileged projected psychoanalysis reading replaced representation of woman represents reproduction Roman ROMANCE LANGUAGES Salpêtrière scene scientist screen sculpted sculpture sexual significant Sowana spectator statue Stilla stone symptoms Technophilia tion Trans trompe-l'oeil ture veil Venus de Milo Villiers Villiers's voice Whereas women