Fecondite d'Emile Zola - Roman a These, Evangile, Mythe (French, Paperback)

This historical and critical study of Zola's Fecondite contributes much to an understanding of how the novel came to be written and of its achievements. Like Travail and Verite, the later books in the series Les Quatre Evangiles, Fecondite has not previously received significant critical attention. This study reveals and interprets the less obvious aspects of the work, its biblical and mythical themes, its sources and genesis. It also adds to our knowledge of Zola's later works through the examination of various ideological currents-particularly the impact of Malthusianism, its proponents and adversaries, and who among them Zola read in preparing this book. Fecondite deals with the particular problem of France's declining birth-rate at the end of the nineteenth century and, more generally, with the problem of decadence and cultural renewal. By the time that he wrote Fecondite, Zola had abandoned his naturalist aesthetic of scientific objectivity, if not also his working methods as a novelist. This study shoes how his didactic concerns continually asserted themselves in the structure and the use of rhetorical techniques in Fecondite. Specialists in Zola, and others more generally interested in the French culture of the late nineteenth century, as well as the particular demographic problems that Zola treats in the work, and the relationship of literature to primitive mythology, should find this study of particular interest.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Heritage
Release date:	2014
First published:	1973
Authors:	David Baguley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-5156-2
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4426-5156-3
Barcode:	9781442651562

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