Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 15 La (r)évolution, 2018, s. 93 - 107
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.18.016.9131Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 18, 2019, s. 125 - 140
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.19.017.10702Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 23, Numer 3, Tom 23 (2023), s. 465 - 472
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.048.19279Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 21, Numer 2, Tom 21 (2021), s. 137 - 144
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.21.014.14069(A)céphales of modernity. Transformations of the “headless women” theme in Émile Zola’s novel Au Bonheur des Dames
The article reflects on the “headless woman” motif, taking into account its transhistorical and transsemiotic character, in Émile Zola’s novel Au Bonheur des Dames. The eleventh volume of Les Rougon- Macquart describes the moment of the transition from the economy of the “ancien regime” to capitalism. This naturalistic view of socio-economic modernity is reflected in the depiction of figures, mainly female ones. The aim of the article is to show that although the presentation of the new femininity is based on the old figure of ambivalence, this time the axis of opposition runs between the “hysterical fever of novelty” and reason or logic.