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Although Joris-Karl Huysmans is mostly known for his famous novel À Rebours (1884), his first steps as a writer were made in art criticism, with an article published in La Revue mensuelle about the landscape painters at the Exposition Universelle that ...
Aude Jeannerod
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“Embodied Meaning. Materiality, Representation and Money in La Peau de Chagrin, À rebours and Le Jardin des supplices” This article presents readings of three French novels from the nineteenth century, namely Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, Huysmans' À ...
Signe Gammelgaard
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The first motivation for reading Karel Schoeman’s novel ’n Ander land within the framework of late nineteenth century Western European decadcnt literature is the strong resemblance between Schoeman's character Versluis and Des Esseintes, main character ...
M. Grobbelaar, H. Roos
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Du “monstre-humain” au “monstre-objet” : l’évolution du monstre (in)visible dans Notre-Dame de Paris et À rebours [PDF]
Au XIXᵉ siècle en France, les monstres sont plus que visibles ; ils occupent le devant de la scène. Ils sont présents dans des domaines aussi divers que la science (avec la tératologie —la première “science” des monstres), la politique, où se dessinent ...
Jade Patterson
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Pratiques sérielles d’un genre médiatique : les « Salons » de Joris-Karl Huysmans
Dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, le dédoublement du Salon, entre l’exposition parisienne annuelle et son compte rendu dans la presse, assure la médiatisation de l’art contemporain – au sens de publicisation comme de représentation.
Aude Jeannerod
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In Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, René Girard draws a line between the novels that reveal the delusion of self-made desires and the ones that nurter this romantic lie. After the defeat of Sedan, Joris-Karl Huysmans in À rebours (1884) and Jean
Marie Kawthar Daouda
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This article will outline the aspects of influence and allusion in the novel, with reference to Victorian Gothic, classical mythology, the psychological double, monster theory, the Faustian bargain, the mask and a prominent memento mori in Huysmans’ A ...
David E. Robinson
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Este artigo procura abarcar as multiplicidades da compreensão do Simbolismo. Para tanto, baseia-se em torno de três romances, Il triomfo della morte, de Gabriele D’Annunzio; Là-bas, de Joris-Karl Huysmans e Le vice suprême, de Josephin Péladan. A partir
Martinho Alves da Costa Jr.
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Michel Houellebecq’s Submission – a novel of decadence
Michel Houellebecq’s Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris ...
Vytautas Bikulčius
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Retrouver le temple du sacré : la logique des extrêmes dans le roman de Durtal
In the late 19th century a reversal of the values linked to the sacred and the profane can be observed. As Religion retreats, Positivism and faith in Progress fill the gap left by the abandoned spiritual belief.
Eléonore Sibourg
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