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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 03, Number 1 (1978)

Malcom's Katie: Alfred as Nihilist not Rapist

  • David S. West
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1978-01-01

Abstract

Robin Mathew's article on "Malcom's Katie" incorrectly interprets a scene between Katie and Alfred as a sexual assault; however the scene is one of rape only in the etymological sense of "being carried away by force" into the underworld, not rape as a sexual assault.