Zola and the Craft of Fiction
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. April 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-1-85567-166-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is a full-length study of Zola's practice as a novelist. Although Zola's literary achievement has been revalued in the last 25 years, critical attention has been concentrated on the contrast between his work's realistic dimension and its poetic power. Now the balance is redressed by this study of Zola as a craftsman. Most of the ten specially commissioned chapters in this book are concerned with its great saga of "Les Rougon-Macquart". In each, Zola's techniques are related to problems on genre and representation and several relate his techniques to those used in contemporary melodrama, journalism and impressionist painting. One chapter is a deep, computer-assisted study of the ways in which Zola's novels are organized, and the study of conscious organization, both of the novel-cycle and individual texts, is the major theme of the entire book.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 145 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-166-9 (9781855671669)
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Content
Zola the novelist, David Baguley; Zola and the art of containing the uncontainable, Philip Walker; L'attente de fiction, Alain Pages; Zola et le melodrama, Collete Becker; conscious artistry and the presentation of the persistent ideal, Joy Newton; pour une poetique de l'espace romanesque, Henri Mitterand; Roman de l'art et du roman, Jean Pierre Leduc-Adine; Zola's art and discourse of resume, Geoff Woolen; Zola's parting shots, Colin Boswell; Zola and the limits of craft, Robert Lethbridge.