Disgust and the Werewolf’s Wife in Marie de France’s Bisclavret
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The objective of this essay is to investigate the disgust of one noblewoman towards her werewolf husband in Bisclavret, one of the lais authored by the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France in the second half of the twelfth century. Bisclavret is a fantasy-fictionlike lai wherein the eponymous werewolf, who is a noble baron in human form, is betrayed and banished by his own wife. Modern scholarship has exhibited a strong dislike towards the werewolf’s wife, condemning her as a selfish, faithless, demoniac adulteress who is driven by disordered sexuality. However, I argue that those critics fail to perceive the mechanism of disgust operating inside the lady, and subsequently they take her behaviors as unintelligible. To identify and explicate the wife’s reactions of disgust and their implications, I will employ the modern disgust theories of sociocultural psychologists, Paul Rozin and April E. Fallon, and of a moral philosopher, Martha C. Nussbaum.
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The objective of this essay is to investigate the disgust of one noblewoman towards her werewolf husband in Bisclavret, one of the lais authored by the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France in the second half of the twelfth century. Bisclavret is a fantasy-fictionlike lai wherein the eponymous werewolf, who is a noble baron in human form, is betrayed and banished by his own wife. Modern scholarship has exhibited a strong dislike towards the werewolf’s wife, condemning her as a selfish, faithless, demoniac adulteress who is driven by disordered sexuality. However, I argue that those critics fail to perceive the mechanism of disgust operating inside the lady, and subsequently they take her behaviors as unintelligible. To identify and explicate the wife’s reactions of disgust and their implications, I will employ the modern disgust theories of sociocultural psychologists, Paul Rozin and April E. Fallon, and of a moral philosopher, Martha C. Nussbaum.
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