Germinal And Zola S Philosophical And Religious Thought

Author : Philip D. Walker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027217240

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Germinal and Zola's Philosophical and Religious Thought by Philip D. Walker Pdf

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film.

Author : Carol Colatrella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317230908

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Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative by Carol Colatrella Pdf

First published in 1990. Balzac, Zola and Faulkner all drew upon the principles of evolutionary theory to represent man’s place in nature and his struggle for survival in their major series La Comèdie humaine, Rougon-Macquart and the Yoknapatawpha fiction. This book focuses on the ‘first’ novels in each author’s series (La Père Goriot, La Fortune des Rougon and Flags in the Dust) and considers how each novel relates to its series and derives a definition of the naturalistic roman-fleuve. To describe this development, the issues of how a scientific idea becomes refracted in a literary genre and how the naturalistic novel developed out of the realistic novel are considered.

Author : Elizabeth Emery
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791489833

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Romancing the Cathedral by Elizabeth Emery Pdf

Romancing the Cathedral explores the late-nineteenth-century French passion for Gothic architecture, particularly the cathedral. Though maligned in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and vandalized during the French Revolution, by World War I the cathedral was considered "the genius of the French nation," a privileged and patriotic work of art that surpassed such other national artworks as Wagner's operas and the Parthenon. However, the moment at which the Gothic style finally reached near-universal acclaim in France also coincided with one of the most anti-clerical periods of French history, the years surrounding the separation of church and state. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Elizabeth Emery explores how the cathedral's popularity stemmed from its semantic richness as well as its glorification in the works of such writers and artists as Emile Zola, J.-K. Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Paul Claudel, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, and others. Using their works as a springboard, Emery examines the ways in which they responded and contributed to prevailing discourses about the cathedral. Interdisciplinary in nature, Romancing the Cathedral will appeal to those interested in Gothic art and architecture, European cultural studies, medievalism, and French literature.

Author : University of California (System)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSF:31378008229836

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University Bulletin by University of California (System) Pdf

Author : Manon Mathias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198735397

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Vision in the Novels of George Sand by Manon Mathias Pdf

The author offers the first study of vision in the works of George Sand. He argues that, rather than rejecting reality in favour of the ideal, he integrates physical observation with internal forms of seeing such as the imagination and visionary insights.

Author : Mariano Longo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351811705

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Emotions through Literature by Mariano Longo Pdf

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources. With a specific focus on literary narrative, including the works of figures such as Dante, Austen, Manzoni, Tolstoy and Kundera, the author draws out the capacity of literary works to describe and represent both the external aspects of social relations and the inner motivations of the involved actors. An interdisciplinary study that combines sociology, narratology, philosophy, historical analysis and literary criticism, Emotions through Literature invites us to re-think the role of emotions in sociological analysis, employing literary narratives to give plausible intellectual responses to the double nature of emotions, their being both individual and social.

Author : William B. Thesing
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 1570033528

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Caverns of Night by William B. Thesing Pdf

An exploration of the aesthetic challenges of representing Western European and American coal-mining experiences in art, literature and film. It features 19 essays offering critical analyses of topics such as gender, class and ethnicity as portrayed in 19th- and 20th-century works.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349108466

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Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel by Michael Scott Pdf

This book describes the challenge to traditional Christian beliefs that was inherent in the very concept of literary Realism and presents the Catholic novel as a series of conscious readaptations of Realist techniques and models. Authors studied include Flaubert, Bernanos and Mauriac.

Author : Liisa Steinby
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111026503

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Myth in the Modern Novel by Liisa Steinby Pdf

Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is difficult to reconcile with modern rationality. Second, some of the most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists. This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an insight into the "modernizing" transformations myth has undergone when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of the "subconscious", the mythic layer, in modern western culture and how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature.

Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015068881773

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Twentieth-century Literary Criticism by Gale Research Company Pdf

Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Author : Jo Ann Marie Recker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217319

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"Appelle-moi Pierrot" by Jo Ann Marie Recker Pdf

The application of moliéresque critical theory to the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné can contribute to a renewed appreciation of the highly intellectual quality of the comic genius of a "spirituelle marquise," a mother who desperately wanted to entice a distanced daughter to regularity in an epistolary exchange, a woman of wit and irony.

Author : Susan Petit
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217602

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Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by Susan Petit Pdf

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.

Author : Julie Candler Hayes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217564

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Identity and Ideology by Julie Candler Hayes Pdf

In a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole.

Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780816074990

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The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel by Karen L. Taylor Pdf

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210121336

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