Description: ". . . DalMolin's fine analysis offers great depth--whether focused on individual works or particular philosophical or theoretical points--and impressive breadth in terms of primary and secondary sources and makes for stimulating and pleasurable reading. Tracing the destructive masculine logic across disciplines after having elucidated its maturation in Petrarch's Canzoniere, has the benefit of drawing on divergent media and a plethora of examples, and therefore demonstrating the pervasiveness and persistence of a logic that is ultimately shown to be as mutilating to the male subject as it is to the woman cut and fragmented by frames, verses and psychoanalytical thought. DalMolin has produced a theoretically sophisticated, thought-provoking study that should appeal to and enlighten scholars of poetry, cinema, and psychoanalysis." --Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco, French Review , Volume 76, No.4

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