caa a22 4500 463200438 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9051-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9051-2 Gale Beth Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University, 950 Main Street, 0610-1477, Worcester, MA, USA aut Hésitation, déchiffrement, et le rôle de l'adolescente dans le récit fantastique de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle [Elektronische Daten] [Beth Gale] This article examines the role of deciphering and hesitation in the reading of late 19th-century fantastic texts, especially as they relate to the role of the young woman in the texts. It is argued that parallels can be drawn between the male gaze upon the adolescent character and the gaze of the reader upon the fantastic text itself. The female adolescent character represents the ambiguous space between childhood and adulthood, an ambiguity that is often figured as androgyny. She also represents a certain threatened innocence. Works by Théophile Gautier and Henry James provide the basis for this analysis of the relationship between deciphering, hesitation and the female adolescent character in the fantastic text. They present characters who are themselves "reading” events occurring around them, and can refuse to see, misinterpret what they see, or willfully misread the signs around them. The characters are also themselves being "read,” both by other characters and by the reader of the text. It is finally the reader who must decide what he or she is seeing/reading, despite the often misleading or ambiguous information contained therein. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Adolescence nationallicence Fantastic nationallicence Literature nationallicence French nationallicence Hesitation nationallicence Decoding nationallicence Nineteenth-Century nationallicence Tales nationallicence Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 555-564 0028-2677 91:4<555 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9051-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9051-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gale Beth Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University, 950 Main Street, 0610-1477, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 555-564 0028-2677 91:4<555 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer