| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 213 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Pardoner -- Le Calvaire -- L'Abbé Jules -- Sébastien Roch -- The Seer -- Dans le ciel -- The Stranger -- Le Jardin des supplices -- Le Journal d'une femme de chambre -- The Brother -- Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique -- La 628-E8 -- Dingo -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Casting Octave Mirbeau as a fierce detractor of army, church, and schools--institutions of regimentation and repression that perverted man's instinct and alienated him from nature--critics and literary historians see his fiction as grounded in the sordid social reality of his time. Yet unlike his reactionary contemporaries who sought escape into the narcissistic bliss of mysticism (J.-K. Huysmans) or admission into the exclusive precincts of occult research (Joséphin Péladan), Mirbeau pursued experiences of the transcendental in order to better understand his suffering brothers whose plight he chronicles in his work" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mirbeau, Octave, 1848-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mirbeau, Octave, 1848-1917. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Suffering in literature.
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Suffering in literature. |
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental. Newark : University Of Delaware Press ; [2015] 9781611495614 (DLC) 2015000743 |
| ISBN |
9781611495621 (ebook) |
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1611495628 |
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9781611495621 (electronic) |
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9781611495614 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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161149561X |
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