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This section contains papers about Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero (Leonard R.N. Ashley); Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Lynn Hamilton); Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers (Russell E. Brown), Molière's Le Malade imaginaire (Betty J. Davis), Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón (Catherine G. Rovira); Trollope's The Warden (Vivian Zinkin); and Names Prime Evil: Fictional Heroes of Horror and Fear in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly (Maxine M. Bernard).
The paper of Maxine M. Bernard covers the work of two authors, Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly, but because of this broad span her conclusions are not always very convincing.
For example, this is her interpretation of one of Barbey's religious monsters (the seductor and rapist of an innocent country girl in A Nameless Story ): The name Riculf seems to be a clever composite of two French words: rire, meaning to laugh, comes directly from the Latin rictus meaning a mocking sneering laughter; and culer meaning to back away or go astray.