Zola Before the Rougon-Macquart

John Lapp

Published by University of Toronto Press 1964

Zola Before the Rougon-Macquart

John Lapp

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576035

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About this book

Professor Lapp now makes an important contribution to this recent work on Zola. In making his examination Professor Lapp has been interested in determining whether certain patters of plot, character, situation, and image which occur constantly throughout the Rougon-Macquart were present also in the works prior to 1870.

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Lapp John :

JOHN C. LAPP holds degrees from Queen's University and from Cornell Unviersity. He has taught French in a number of American colleges and unviersities, including Oberlin College and the University of California at Los Angeles. Since 1963 he has been Executive Head of the Department of French and Italian at Standford University. His most recent book was Aspects of Racinian Tragedy.

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A.F.B. Clark:

Professor Lapp’s study is one of the best that has been devoted to Racine anywhere at any time…. The book is so full of original—and sometimes audacious—apercus, that it is difficult in a brief review to give an adequate idea of its contents. The part from which the most solid profits can be drawn is, in my judgement, the central core devoted to an examination of the way in which Racine adapted the famous "conventions" of neo-classic theory to his own purposes and thereby established a new kind of tragedy. This is brilliantly done and puts every study of Racine in debt to Mr. Lap….All lovers of Racine should be grateful to Professor Lapp for revealing to them with his percipient eye, his scholarly knowledge and his sensitive taste beauties which repeated readings of Racine had not vouchsafed to them.

Voici un livre qui a les plus grands mérites. Le titre modeste cache en fait un véritable essai d’esthétique racinienne…. Ce n’est point Racine poète qui doit nous retenir, mais Racine auteur tragique. Le point départ est excellent. Le développement ne l’est pas moins. Tout l’étude sera consacrée à la nature tragique des aspects qu’offre le théâtre racinien. M. Lapp s’appuie sur une lecture attentive et fervente de l’écrivain. Il utilise les travaux de ses prédécesseurs, avec discrétion et avec esprit critique : toujours il confronte leurs observations avec son expérience personnelle. Sa synthèse, bien qu’elle comporte des trouvailles étrangères, les assimile parfaitement et forme un ensemble homogène et nouveau.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
I. THE TELLER OF TALES Zola's contes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. THE WRITER AS HERO La Confession de Claude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3. MARKING TIME Le Vreu d'une morte and Les Mysteres de Marseille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. THE NOVEL AS DRAMA Thérèse Raquin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
5. ETERNAL WOMAN Madeleine Ferat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Copyright year: 1964
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 186

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Published: December 15, 1964
ISBN: 9781487576035