De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris
This paper seeks to examine the role played by the city in three major novels by Frank Norris: McTeague, The Octopus and The Pit. Far from being mere referential backgrounds, where poverty and misery reign supreme, Norris's cities (San Francisco and Chicago) play a specific symbolic role in eac...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1454 |
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| Summary: | This paper seeks to examine the role played by the city in three major novels by Frank Norris: McTeague, The Octopus and The Pit. Far from being mere referential backgrounds, where poverty and misery reign supreme, Norris's cities (San Francisco and Chicago) play a specific symbolic role in each novel and this role grows increasingly complex from one book to the next. The city is a most appropriate means for the novelist to suggest and impose naturalism as he sees it—a combination of realistic verisimilitude and romantic grandioseness. |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3331 2427-0466 |