Decadent Femme Fatale. Counter-narratives of the Biblical Salome’s Myth in Fin de Siècle France, England & Poland 3700-AL-DFF-qKR

Student:
K_W01: is familiar with basic terms used in humanities and understands the cultural role of these terms;
K_W05: is familiar with basic methods of analysis and interpretation of cultural texts and works of art;
K_W06: is familiar with basic trends and concepts in philosophy, social sciences, and natural sciences
K_W07: is familiar with key interdisciplinary research methods;

K_U02: Knows how to analyse artworks, scholarly publications, and source texts using specific research methods;
K_U03: Knows how to contextualize the work of culture in relation to the time of its creation and the moment of reading;
K_U04: Knows how to formulate a research problem;
K_U07: Knows how to demonstrate the results obtained through individual work and teamwork;
K_U08: Knows how to complete basic research assignments in writing;

K_K03: is willing to explore new research methods;
K_K06: is prepared to take appropriate measures aimed at a protection of cultural and natural heritage;
K_K07: observes the principle of tolerance, understands cultural heritage and respects cultural differences
K_K08: appreciates the cultural legacy of a community.

Critical essay (50%), attendance and activity in class (50%).

I. Primary Sources:

Flaubert, Gustave, 'Hérodias', in Trois contes, ed. by Pierre-Marc de Biasi (Paris: GF Flammarion, 2009), pp. 109-159. English translation: 'Hérodias', in Three Tales (New York: Dover Publications: 2012). Polish translation: Herodiada, w: Trzy baśnie, przeł. R. Lis I J.M. Rymkiewicz, Warszawa, Sic!, 2009.
_, Voyage en Égypte, ed. by Pierre-Marc de Biasi (Paris: Grasset, 1991). In English: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (1972).
Holy Bible. New Revised Standard Version, (New York, Shanghai: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Kasprowicz, Jan, 'Uczta Herodiady', in Pisma zebrane, vol. 4, ed. by Roman Loth (Kraków- Wrocław: Wyd. Literackie, 1984), pp. 245-403.
Wilde, Oscar, 'Salomé', in The complete works of Oscar Wilde, vol. 5, ed. by Joseph Donohue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 325-780. In Polish: Salome: tragedia Oskara Wilde'a, przeł. W. Fromowicz, Bydgoszcz, Arcanum, 1992.
_, The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1962).

II. Secondary sources:

Beckson, Karl, London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (New York: Norton, 1992).
Bentley, Toni, 'Salome: The Daughter of Iniquity', Sisters of Salome (New Haven; London:Yale University Press, 2002).
Cassou‐Yager, Hélène, 'The Myth of Salome in the Decadent Movement: Flaubert, Moreau, Huysmans', The European Legacy, 2.1 (Routledge 1997), pp. 185-190.
Conklin, Alice L., A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa 1895-1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
Décaudin, Michel, 'Un Mythe Fin de Siècle: Salomé', Comparative Literature Studies 4, 1.2 (1967).
Dijkstra, Bram, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Dottin-Orsini, Mireille, Cette femme qu'ils disent fatale. Textes et images de la misogynie fin-de- siècle (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1993).
Gagnier, Regenia A., Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986).
Hanson, Ellis, Decadence and Catholicism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
Marchal, Bertrand, Salomé : entre vers et prose : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Flaubert, Huysmans (Paris: J. Corti, 2005).
Marshall, Gail (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Menon, Elizabeth Kolbinger, Evil by Design: the Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006).
Neginsky, Rosina, Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome: Nymph, Seducer, Destroyer (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
van Os, Henk, ed., Femmes Fatales, 1860-1910 (Wommelgem: BAI, 2002).
Weir, David, Decadence and the Making of Modernism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995).
Zagona, Helen Grace, The Legend of Salome and the Principle of Art for Art's Sake (Paris: Droz, Minard, 1960).

III. Approaches:

a) scapegoating theory:

Girard, René, La violence et le sacré (Paris: Grasset, 1972). English translation: Violence and the Sacred (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). Polish translation: Sacrum i przemoc (Poznań: Brama-Książnica Włóczęgów i Uczonych, 1993).
_, Le Bouc émissaire (Paris: Grasset, 1982). English translation: The Scapegoat, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). Polish translation: Kozioł ofiarny (Łódź 1987, 1991).
_, The Girard Reader, ed. James G. Williams (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996).
Dumouchel, Paul (ed.), Violence and Truth: on the Work of René Girard (London: Athlone, 1988).

b) feminist literary & visual theories:

Alsop, Rachel et al., Theorizing Gender (Polity: 2002).
Butler, Judith, Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (New York: Routledge, 1993).
Cixous, Hélène, “The Laugh of the Medusa”, Signs 1: 4 (Summer 1976), p. 875-93.
Doane, Mary Ann, “Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator”, Screen (1982) 23: 3-4, pp. 74-88. doi: 10.1093/screen/23.3-4.74.
Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet (eds), Language and Gender, Second edition (Cambridge: CUP, 2013), Chapter 1, “An Introduction to Gender”, p. 1-36.
Wittig, Monique, The Straight Mind and Other Essays by Monique Wittig (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992).

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