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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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/acs, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma
2024
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | 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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