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Kroppens mening : Materialitet, repræsentation og penge i La Peau de chagrin, À rebours og Le Jardin des supplices

Gammelgaard, Signe LU orcid (2022) In Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 52(2-3). p.57-71
Abstract
This article presents readings of three French novels from the nineteenth century, namely Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, Huysmans' À rebours and Octave Mirbeau's Le Jardin des supplices. It examines issues of representation and meaning in relation to debt narratives and the use of bodies as a motif in relation to debt, and it argues that, in these novels, literary language and monetary representation displays parallel developments, exemplified through the shift from realist aesthetics to decadent literary style. The article ends by connecting a shifting representative function and related issues of meaning, to modern tendencies in literature, and the function of the human body in these narratives.
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decadence, economic criticism, Honoré de Balzac, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Octave Mirbeau, nineteenth century novel
in
Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
volume
52
issue
2-3
pages
15 pages
publisher
Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
ISSN
2001-094X
DOI
10.54797/tfl.v52i2-3.2260
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Danish
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dedf6cf7-0d15-45a4-9862-ad3cdd142653
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https://publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/view/2260
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  title        = {{Kroppens mening : Materialitet, repræsentation og penge i <i>La Peau de chagrin</i>,<i> À rebours</i> og <i>Le Jardin des supplices</i>}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v52i2-3.2260}},
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