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Author:

Ziegler, Robert, 1947-

Title:

Beauty raises the dead : literature and loss in the fin de siècle / Robert Ziegler.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

189 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Decadence (Literary movement)--France.
Bereavement in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.

Contents:

Naturalism, decadence, and the psychology of loss -- Mourning and incorporation: Villiers's "Véra" and Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte -- Matricide and the construction of the audience in Rachilde's La jongleuse and Lorrain's Monsieur de Bougrelon -- Creation as disillusionment in Catulle Mendès's Le chercheur de tares and Marcel Schwob's Le livre de Monelle -- The artist in utopia: J.-K. Huysmans's Là-bas and Octave Mirbeau's La 628-E8.

ISBN:

9780874137736 (alk. paper)
087413773X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47136570

LCCN:

2001037566

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)