Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / Christopher Laing Hill.
Material type: TextSeries: Flashpoints | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780810142169
- Naturalism in literature
- Literature, Modern
- Comparative literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Litterature -- 20e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Litterature -- 19e siecle -- Histoire et critique
- Naturalisme dans la litterature
- Comparative literature
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Naturalism in literature
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
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
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"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.
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