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BEASTLY HUMAN AND THE MECHANICAL BEAST: ARCHITECTONIC SYMBOLISM IN ZOLA (NAMES, EPITHETS, ANIMAL-MACHINE, SYMBOLOGY, PALIMPSEST, FRANCE)

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1985
Summary:
Emile Zola 's Rougon-Macguart novels describe the essential corruption of the Second Empire. In the cycle of novels, this epoch of rapid industrialization, before it ended in the Franco-Prussian debacle of 1871, enriched th e entrepreneurial Rougon branch but brutalized the proletarian Macquart branch of Zola's socially symbolic family. The majority of critics, past and present, either neglect or regret one major aspect of Zola's fictional portrayal of the period: the cumulative animal and machine imagery in the cycle's meticulously prepared settings, diction, epithets, and names. Such intricate veins of imagery constitute Zola''s architectonic symbolism. And the author's didactic sub-texts, especially in Le Ventre de paris, L'Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, and La Bete humaine, give the cycle its universality and its humanistic power.
Title: THE BEASTLY HUMAN AND THE MECHANICAL BEAST: ARCHITECTONIC SYMBOLISM IN ZOLA (NAMES, EPITHETS, ANIMAL-MACHINE, SYMBOLOGY, PALIMPSEST, FRANCE).
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Name(s): PASSARIELLO, MICHAEL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hokenson, Jan W., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 176 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Emile Zola 's Rougon-Macguart novels describe the essential corruption of the Second Empire. In the cycle of novels, this epoch of rapid industrialization, before it ended in the Franco-Prussian debacle of 1871, enriched th e entrepreneurial Rougon branch but brutalized the proletarian Macquart branch of Zola's socially symbolic family. The majority of critics, past and present, either neglect or regret one major aspect of Zola's fictional portrayal of the period: the cumulative animal and machine imagery in the cycle's meticulously prepared settings, diction, epithets, and names. Such intricate veins of imagery constitute Zola''s architectonic symbolism. And the author's didactic sub-texts, especially in Le Ventre de paris, L'Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, and La Bete humaine, give the cycle its universality and its humanistic power.
Identifier: 14274 (digitool), FADT14274 (IID), fau:12683 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Subject(s): Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation
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