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    Cocteau au cirque: The Poetics of Parade and "Le Numéro Barbette" by Jennifer Forrest

    Published 2003-01-01
    “…Equally central, proposes Lydia Crowson, is Cocteau's July 1926 Nouvelle Revue Française article on "Le Numéro Barbette." The essay on the transvestite striptease trapezist Barbette offers a poetics of the theater that will have changed little by the time of his last play, L'Impromptu du Palais Royal . …”
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    Art and Androgyny: The Aerialist by Naomi Ritter

    Published 1989-08-01
    “…Two important texts by Cocteau and Thomas Mann, "Le Numero de Barbette" (1926) and Chapter 1 in Book III of Felix Krull ( 1951), show the aerial artiste as sexually ambivalent. …”
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