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9780805782714

Emile Zola Revisited

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805782714

  • ISBN10:

    0805782710

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-08-01
  • Publisher: Twayne Pub
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Summary

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work.

Each volume features:

-- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works

-- A brief biography of the author

-- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context

-- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index

-- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chronology xiii
Toward Naturalism
1(14)
The Family Tree
15(30)
La Fortune des Rougon: A Novel of Origins
La Bete humaine: A Fatal Oxymoron
Le Docteur Pascal: Deadwood and New Growth
Moment and Movement
45(45)
La Curee: Appetites and Ambitions
La Conquete de Plassans: Stooping to Conquer
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon: A Political Phoenix
Au Bonheur des Dames: A Poem of Modern Activity
Germinal: Labor Movement
L'Argent: Business as Battle
La Debacle: The Fall of the Second Empire
The All-Encompassing Environment
90(37)
La Ventre de Paris: Misfit in the Market
La Faute de l'abbe Mouret: Trouble in Paradise
L'Assommoir: The Working-Class Milieu
Pot-Bouille: A Bourgeois Stew
La Joie de vivre: The Endless Sea
La Terre: Dirty Business
Experimentation and Poetry
127(29)
Experimentation
Poetry
Une page d'Amour: An Interlude
Nana: The Play's the Thing
L'Oeuvre: Creation and Failure
Le Reve: An Allegory of Art
Toward Immortality
156(8)
Conclusion
164(3)
Notes and References 167(33)
Selected Bibliography 200(7)
Index 207

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