TY - JOUR
TI - The movement with a meaning. Rhetoric of the paroxystic body at La Conquête de Plassans d’Émile Zola
AU - Rachwalska von Rejchwald, Jolanta
TI - The movement with a meaning. Rhetoric of the paroxystic body at La Conquête de Plassans d’Émile Zola
AB - 19th century literature makes the body one of the objects of interest treating it as a surface on which signs appear that are a trace of emotions swirling inside it. Zola is one of those writers who put the body centrally to their work, making it a starting point to deepen the mystery of a man. The presented study is an analysis of affects manifesting through the gesture and movements of the body. The main character’s body is, according to the biological model of the epoch, a hysterical type. However, it is not just a hysterical body, but it is also paroxystic which means, the penultimate moment before the end. It is this rift, externalized in the dynamic posture of the body, that is acting out, assigned to a man, which is the ambivalence of this seemingly obvious model of oversensitive femininity, common in discourses of the 19th century.
VL - 2019
IS - Numéro 18
PY - 2019
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 125
EP - 140
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.19.017.10702
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/le-geste-signifiant-la-rhetorique-du-corps-paroxystique-dans-la-conquete-de-plassans-demile-zola
KW - Zola
KW - La Conquêtede Plassans
KW - body
KW - gesture