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- Title
BYRON'S DON JUAN IN DISGUISE: NEITHER DANDY NOR LIBERTINE.
- Authors
CRUCEANU, ROXANA
- Abstract
Insisting on the role of transvestitism in the seraglio - the only place where Byron's Don Juan is comically assertive with a woman - this article pleads for the addition of the protagonist to the list of the heroines in the poem because of his post-erotic manoeuvres alluding to a female's resources when not so virtuous and avoiding to be caught. My contention is that the main character is neither dandy nor Don Juan since he lives his exotic experience in a state of panic, indecision and confusion.
- Subjects
DON Juan (Poem : Byron); CROSS-dressing in literature; DANDYISM in literature
- Publication
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Philologia, 2015, Vol 60, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
1220-0484
- Publication type
Poetry Review