Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Flashpoints |
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FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Preface -- 1. Literary Travels and Literary Transformation -- Literatures in the World -- Naturalist Circuits -- Contexts -- The Structure of the Transnational Field -- 2. The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content |
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Formal Transpositions and Minimal Schemas -- 4. Plains, Boats, and Backwaters -- Narratives of Structure -- The Horizons of Struggle -- Germinal's Sprouts -- The View from the Crosstrees -- Living Unevenness -- Social Figures and Social Difference -- Conclusion: Figures in and of the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
"Hill's analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move"-- Provided by publisher |
Analysis |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Subject |
Naturalism in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Comparative literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Comparative literature
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Literature, Modern
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Naturalism in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780810142169 |
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0810142163 |
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