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30 janvier 2024
- doi: 10.4000/caliban.1454
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description ville représentation naturalisme Norris Chicago San Francisco référentialité territoireSujets proches
Global cities Towns Urban systems Municipalities Urban areas Octopus Pieuvres Milieu urbain Espace urbain Régions urbaines Communes urbaines Environnement urbain Monde urbain Cités Ville Zones urbaines Grandes villes Centres urbains agglomération agglomération urbaine choraCiter ce document
Pascale Antolin, « De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris », Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma, ID : 10.4000/caliban.1454
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This paper seeks to examine the role played by the city in three major novels by Frank Norris: McTeague, The Octopus and The Pit. Far from being mere referential backgrounds, where poverty and misery reign supreme, Norris's cities (San Francisco and Chicago) play a specific symbolic role in each novel and this role grows increasingly complex from one book to the next. The city is a most appropriate means for the novelist to suggest and impose naturalism as he sees it—a combination of realistic verisimilitude and romantic grandioseness.