"Tout un monde nouveau à enfanter": utopie créatrice et maternité monstrueuse chez Zola

Often seen as texts glorifying maternity and renewing the role of the monstrous woman of Les Rougon-Macquart, the Quatre Évangiles link motherhood to a new version of excess. By having the fertile woman physically erased in the text, the notion of maternity is de-corporalised, becomes a factor of m...

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Main Author: Béreiziat-Lang, Stephanie (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:French
Published: 2025
In: HeLix
Year: 2025, Volume: 18, Pages: 119-141
ISSN:2191-642X
DOI:10.11588/helix.2025.1.110885
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.11588/helix.2025.1.110885
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/helix/article/view/110885
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Author Notes:Stephanie Béreiziat-Lang (Universität Heidelberg)
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Summary:Often seen as texts glorifying maternity and renewing the role of the monstrous woman of Les Rougon-Macquart, the Quatre Évangiles link motherhood to a new version of excess. By having the fertile woman physically erased in the text, the notion of maternity is de-corporalised, becomes a factor of monstrous multiplication, and delivers in retrospect a poetology for the writing processes of the Rougon-Macquart-cycle.
Item Description:Gesehen am 02.06.2025
Physical Description:Online Resource
ISSN:2191-642X
DOI:10.11588/helix.2025.1.110885