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Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental
- Title
- Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental / Robert Ziegler.
- Author
- Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-3874 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 213 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Casting Octave Mirbeau as a fierce detractor of army, church, and schools--institutions of regimentation and repression that perverted man's instinct and alienated him from nature--critics and literary historians see his fiction as grounded in the sordid social reality of his time. Yet unlike his reactionary contemporaries who sought escape into the narcissistic bliss of mysticism (J.-K. Huysmans) or admission into the exclusive precincts of occult research (Joséphin Péladan), Mirbeau pursued experiences of the transcendental in order to better understand his suffering brothers whose plight he chronicles in his work" --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Pardoner -- Le Calvaire -- L'Abbé Jules -- Sébastien Roch -- The Seer -- Dans le ciel -- The Stranger -- Le Jardin des supplices -- Le Journal d'une femme de chambre -- The Brother -- Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique -- La 628-E8 -- Dingo -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-3874
- ISBN
- 9781611495614
- 161149561X
- 9781611495621 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015000743
- OCLC
- 898910775
- Author
- Ziegler, Robert, 1947- author.
- Title
- Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental / Robert Ziegler.
- Publisher
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-3874