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Zola, the Body Modern - Pressures and Prospects of Representation (Hardcover)
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Zola, the Body Modern - Pressures and Prospects of Representation (Hardcover)
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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.
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