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(Mi)lieux critiques : Hybridité et hétérotopie dans La Curée et Au Bonheur des Dames

Raterman, Jacob Stuart
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0341-5036
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438208762

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, French, Italian, and Classical Studies.
This thesis, composed in French, explores the use of bourgeois urban space in two novels of Emile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart. Specifically, by situating these works in the context of Zola’s moralistic naturalism, this paper examines the ways that the author uses literary techniques to effect an imbrication of the spatial and the social, and analyses how these instances of hybridity take on critical weight. While the main focus of this study is on the attention given to descriptions of space and to characters’ interactions with it, Zola’s use of rhetorical strategies, including but not limited to metaphor and metonymy, also undergoes close inspection. In addition to current scholarship on Zola, the theoretical framework developed in this thesis comprises seminal works on the philosophy of space, most notably Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Having elucidated the the methods by which Zola simultaneously depicts and critiques the socio-spatial evolutions of the Second Empire, the conclusion illustrates the contemporaneity of his assessments of urban space.
Jonathan Strauss (Advisor)
Elisabeth Hodges (Committee Member)
Anna Klosowska (Committee Member)
60 p.
Cultural Anthropology; European Studies; Gender Studies; Labor Economics; Modern History; Modern Literature; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Science History; Social Structure; Urban Planning
zola; space; Second Empire; 19th-century; urbanism; bourgeoisie; heterotopia; non-place; hybridity; Paris; spatial philosophy; novel

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  • Raterman, J. S. (2015). (Mi)lieux critiques : Hybridité et hétérotopie dans La Curée et Au Bonheur des Dames [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438208762

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Raterman, Jacob. (Mi)lieux critiques : Hybridité et hétérotopie dans La Curée et Au Bonheur des Dames. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438208762.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Raterman, Jacob. "(Mi)lieux critiques : Hybridité et hétérotopie dans La Curée et Au Bonheur des Dames." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438208762

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