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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-37fd35670a6947acab3411bb93cffc3b2025-01-30T12:34:03ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662009-12-0125637310.4000/caliban.1454De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank ΝorrisPascale AntolinThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1454descriptionvillereprésentationnaturalismeNorrisChicago |
| spellingShingle | Pascale Antolin De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris Anglophonia description ville représentation naturalisme Norris Chicago |
| title | De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris |
| title_full | De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris |
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| title_full_unstemmed | De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris |
| title_short | De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris |
| title_sort | de san francisco a chicago les villes de papier de frank νorris |
| topic | description ville représentation naturalisme Norris Chicago |
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