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Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle

Title
Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle / Robert Ziegler.
Author
Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
Publication
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2002.

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Description
189 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Decadence (Literary movement) > France
  • Bereavement in literature
  • Loss (Psychology) in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.
Contents
Naturalism, decadence, and the psychology of loss -- Mourning and incorporation: Villiers's "Véra" and Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte -- Matricide and the construction of the audience in Rachilde's La jongleuse and Lorrain's Monsieur de Bougrelon -- Creation as disillusionment in Catulle Mendès's Le chercheur de tares and Marcel Schwob's Le livre de Monelle -- The artist in utopia: J.-K. Huysmans's Là-bas and Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.
Call Number
JFE 02-4399
ISBN
087413773X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2001037566
OCLC
47136570
Author
Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
Title
Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle / Robert Ziegler.
Imprint
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 02-4399
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