Continuum, Volume 2AMS Press, 1990 - French literature |
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... seduce , or be eminently con- genial to an emergent Classical order of the One , will be the figure of natural sexual symmetry — the figure traced by the coupling of the characters , the male - female coupling that divides and joins the ...
... seduce , or be eminently con- genial to an emergent Classical order of the One , will be the figure of natural sexual symmetry — the figure traced by the coupling of the characters , the male - female coupling that divides and joins the ...
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... seduce his patron's wife , Elmire , and , by portraying religion and lubricity as linked , makes a mockery of the dévots ' intense preoccupation with chastity . It is hardly surprising that the dévots were outraged ( and succeeded in ...
... seduce his patron's wife , Elmire , and , by portraying religion and lubricity as linked , makes a mockery of the dévots ' intense preoccupation with chastity . It is hardly surprising that the dévots were outraged ( and succeeded in ...
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