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To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

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To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a graft of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Hardcover

Release: April 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780874135398

To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

0/5 ( ratings)

To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a graft of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Hardcover

Release: April 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780874135398

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