Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form /

"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"--

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Autor principal: Hill, Christopher L., 1964- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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