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Article: Divorce and political scandal in Edouard Rod's "Michel Teissier" novels.
- Article from:
- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Edouard Rod (1857-1910) has long since fallen into the gap between, on the one hand, a pedagogical reliance on the novelistic canon and, on the other, the critical excavation of cultural margins. The canon has been underwritten by the values of what we might call aesthetically motivated criticism, as many university courses continue to convey the quintessence of French fictional prose during the years between the Franco-Prussian and Great Wars via authors such as Zola, Maupassant and Gide, who mark the shift from the terminus of the nineteenth century's mimetic project to the inauguration of modernist literature. Meanwhile, the margins are politicized by their relationship ...