Zola, the body modern
Subtitle: pressures and prospects of representation
By: Susan Harrow
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781906540760
Subjects: Human body in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: 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 Romon-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. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-221) and index.