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'Les objets plus ou moins déformés': Émile Zola's Screen Theory of Representation and the Rougon-Macquart Cycle.

  • Published In: Nottingham French Studies, 2023, v. 62, n. 1. P. 56 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Troy, Eddy 3 of 3

Abstract

This article argues for renewed attention to Émile Zola's notion of the 'Écran transparent' in light of calls to read the novelist's Rougon-Macquart cycle as proto-modernist. It claims that in his 8 August 1864 letter to Antony Valabrègue, Zola lays the theoretical foundations for a departure from verisimilitude, advancing instead a mode of perception that frequently generates deformed objects – objects engendered by a 'surréalisme particulier' (Gilles Deleuze). The article re-reads the 'prospective qualities' (Susan Harrow) of Germinal, Au Bonheur des Dames and La Curée to explicate the deformative logics of the Zola's Screen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Nottingham French Studies. 2023/03, Vol. 62, Issue 1, p56
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0029-4586
  • DOI:10.3366/nfs.2023.0368
  • Accession Number:163044294
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