Est-ce que la representation de la femme chez Zola, et dans la
fiction naturaliste en general, enterine l'idee d'une permanence du
feminin? Echappe-t-elle au contraire a toute figure, y compris au
mythe de la diabolisation ou de l'exaltation, pour faire valoir une
ambiguite, une indetermination qui correspondrait a l'effacement
des sexes propre a la deuxieme moitie du XIXc siecle? C'est a une
telle question que cet ouvrage s'attache a repondre dans le but de
cerner une ecriture du feminin propre a la fiction naturaliste.
L'ecriture du feminin est ici envisagee a la fois comme poetique de
la representation, interpretation textuelle et discours conscient
ou inconscient que la societe fait entendre sur la femme. Un tel
discours n'echappe pas a l'hegemonie positiviste de son epoque qui
legitime toute categorisation de la feminite. Parallelement, a
l'etat de crise declenche par le progres scientifique et la peur
face aux transformations qu'il engendre, fait des lors echo une
hermeneutique du feminin comme metamorphose, ouverture et enigme.
Does the representation of woman in Zola, and in naturalist fiction
in general, confirm the notion of a permanence of the feminine; or,
on the contrary, does it escape all tropes, including myths that
demonize or exalt, in order to exploit its ambiguity or
indeterminacy, and thereby correspond to the erasure of sex that
characterizes cultural production during the second half of the
nineteenth century? This is the question this work attempts to
answer, in order to define and delimit the writing of the feminine
in naturalist fiction. In this book, the inscription of the
feminine is envisaged simultaneously as a poetics of
representation, textualinterpretation, and conscious or unconscious
discourse that society gives to understand about woman. Such a
discourse fails to escape the positivist hegemony of the period
that legitimizes the categorization of the feminine. Nevertheless,
beyond this systemization of the concept of woman, the idea of
scientific progress brings about the development of a generalized
myth of transformation that gives rise to the anguish of
incertitude, degeneracy, and emptiness. A hermeneutics of woman as
metamorphosis, open-mindedness, and mystery echos this situation of
crisis.
General
Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2004 |
Editors: |
Anna Gural-Migdal
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Contributors: |
Anna Gural
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Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
493 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8204-6257-8 |
Languages: |
English
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French
|
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8204-6257-8 |
Barcode: |
9780820462578 |
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