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Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
1985
Description
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.
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.
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Form
Extent
176 p.
Subject (Topical)
Identifier
14274
Additional Information
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Date Backup
1985
Date Text
1985
Date Issued (EDTF)
1985
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FADT14274
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monographic
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Person Preferred Name
PASSARIELLO, MICHAEL.
Graduate College
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176 p.
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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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Origin Information
1985
monographic
Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
Physical Location
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Place
Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
BEASTLY HUMAN AND THE MECHANICAL BEAST: ARCHITECTONIC SYMBOLISM IN ZOLA (NAMES, EPITHETS, ANIMAL-MACHINE, SYMBOLOGY, PALIMPSEST, FRANCE)
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BEASTLY HUMAN AND THE MECHANICAL BEAST: ARCHITECTONIC SYMBOLISM IN ZOLA (NAMES, EPITHETS, ANIMAL-MACHINE, SYMBOLOGY, PALIMPSEST, FRANCE)