Abstract: »This paper aims to elucidate that the poetic representations of rape fantasy in Stéphane Mallarmé’s L’après-midi d’un faune and W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” elevate human sexual desire from its initial destructive bestial character to a higher constructive poetic level. In L’après-midi d’un faune, the faun transforms himself from a thoughtless carnal beast into a poet and creates the symbolist concept of beauty which is simultaneously sensuous and eternal. And in “Leda and the Swan,” the narrator clearly recognizes the destructive bestial violence inherent in human history born of the swan’s rape of Leda and reflects instead Yeats’s poetic imagination of a humanized historicism as the synthesis of power and wisdom.« (Source: 한국 예이츠 저널)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 135)
	I. 서론 (p. 136)
	II. 『목신의 오후』 (p. 140)
	III. 「레다와 백조」 (p. 147)
	IV. 결론 (p. 155)
	Works Cited (p. 158)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of France | History of Europe: History of Ireland | Literature: French literature / Stéphane Mallarmé | Literature: Irish literature / W.B. Yeats | Literature: Poems about rape / L'après-midi d'un faune (poem) | Sex and the law: Rape / History of rape