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- Title
THE UNVEILING GAZE AND THE SUPERSTITION OF SEXUALITY IN THE MONK.
- Authors
Süner, Ahmet
- Abstract
In this paper, I analyze some key scenes in The Monk to argue that sexual desire, as represented in the text, acts as a superstition that defies the normativity of culture. The narrative may then be understood as the spectacularization of the conflict between unveiling desire and veiling cultural norm that becomes reformulated in the text as the conflict between superstition and religion. I rhetorically highlight the figure of the ''veil'' as the locus of contention between sexuality and cultural norm and contrast the gaze of Lorenzo with that of Ambrosio to show how the former gaze negotiates cultural norm, while the latter disavows it as they both veil and/or unveil their respective objects of desire.
- Subjects
HUMAN sexuality; EVIL eye; FOLKLORE; MONKS; CLERGY
- Publication
Journal of Yaşar University / Yaşar Üniversitesi E-Dergisi, 2013, Vol 8, p60
- ISSN
1305-970X
- Publication type
Article