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Author | : Susan Harrow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351536079 |
Emile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.
Author | : Susan Harrow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351536087 |
Emile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.
Author | : Brian Nelson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0192574531 |
Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life, class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold, outspoken voice often inviting controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian Nelson examines Zola's major themes and narrative art. He illuminates the social and political contexts of Zola's work, and provides readings of five individual novels (The Belly of Paris, L'Assommoir, The Ladies' Paradise, Germinal, and Earth). Zola's naturalist theories, which attempted to align literature with science, helped to generate the stereotypical notion that his fiction was somehow nonfictional. Nelson, however, reveals how the most distinctive elements of Zola's writing go far beyond his theoretical naturalism, giving his novels their unique force. Throughout, he sets Zola's work in context, considering his relations with contemporary painters, his role in the Dreyfus Affair, and his eventual murder. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438112912 |
A collection of critical essays on Émile Zola's work.
Author | : L. Duffy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-12-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137297549 |
This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.
Author | : Holly Woodson Waddell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In my analysis, Zola reveals his deep pessimism most compellingly through the image of the dead child. I find that images such as aborted babies, the "chair" or infant flesh of the Stock Market, and a stabbed fetus all point to the perversity of modern capitalism, which is motivated by misogynist greed and selfish ambition. Zola, I believe, has intentionally chosen this most damning archetype as the driving metaphor behind the Rougon-Macquart. Mass infant and child sacrifice are thus reiterated as a trope which conveys the heartlessness and cruelty driving Progress.
Author | : Susie Hennessy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Consumption (Economics) in literature |
ISBN | : 9781495503610 |
This book looks at Zola's treatment of women alongside 19th century texts about the domestic world, telling a story about French society coming to grips with a rapidly changing world and providing a socio-historical context for his characterization of women.
Author | : Guy Endore |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1639361286 |
Endore's classic werewolf novel - now back in paperback for the first time in over forty years - helped define a genre and set a new standard in horror fiction The werewolf is one of the great iconic figures of horror in folklore, legend, film, and literature. And connoisseurs of horror fiction know that The Werewolf of Paris is a cornerstone work, a masterpiece of the genre that deservedly ranks with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Endore's classic novel has not only withstood the test of time since it was first published in 1933, but it boldly used and portrayed elements of sexual compulsion in ways that had never been seen before, at least not in horror literature. In this gripping work of historical fiction, Endore's werewolf, an outcast named Bertrand Caillet, travels across pre-Revolutionary France seeking to calm the beast within. Stunning in its sexual frankness and eerie, fog-enshrouded visions, this novel was decidedly influential for the generations of horror and science fiction authors who came afterward.
Author | : Émile Zola |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-12-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
Author | : C. White |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1137373075 |
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.