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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.942
- isbn: 9782251661919
- eisbn: 9782821828766
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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roman romantisme (littérature) naturalisme (littérature) Paris littérature américaine American literature naturalism (literature) Paris novel romantism (literature) Literature LIT004020 DSBSujets proches
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Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « Conclusion », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.942
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The external events that provoke a character’s reaction were no more interesting for James the novelist than Switzerland’s mountains had been for the tourist, or Flaubert’s epileptic fits for the critic. “There is no such thing in the world,” he wrote, “as an adventure pure and simple; there is only mine and yours, and his and hers” Something was important only if someone thought it was, and the French setting was no exception to the rule. That is why we cannot expect to find in James’s work ...