| Title: | Constructing the natural. A few remarks on the flower list as a descriptive device in modern literature |
| Author: | Oana Fotache |
| Publication: | Analele Universității din București. Limba și literatura română, LXIII, p. 3-14 |
| p-ISSN: | 1220-0271 |
| Publisher: | Editura Universității din Bucureşti |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates comparatively the ways in which the flower list functions as a descriptive device in several modern literary works across different cultures, genres, and styles. These include Stéphane Mallarmé’s Les fleurs (The Flowers), Henry Van Dyke’s poem Flood-Tide of Flowers, the novel La Faute de L'Abbé Mouret (Abbé Mouret’s Transgression) by Emile Zola, and Mircea Cărtărescu’s novella REM. Each of these literary works creates a remarkably unitary topos, that of a locus amoenus evoking a long and prestigious tradition of representation in myth, literature, and painting. |
| Key words: | comparative literature, description, archetypal criticism, Garden of Paradise |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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