Margot Szarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3063319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margot Szarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margot |
| FAMILY NAME | Szarke |
| SIGNATURE | SZARKE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Zola’s Sense of Reality
This essay considers Emile Zola's La Joie de vivre (1884) as a study of boredom which turns into a self-reflexive study of literature itself, highlighting the ways in which the text slows down perceptions of objects, events, and the passage of time. This ‘roman psychologique' stretches the reader's attention, thereby inducing forms of ennui that mirror those experienced by the novel's characters. By examining how Zola's writing warps the ‘reality…
Modern Sensitivity
In the mid-1890s, Émile Zola took part in a vast study of cognitive and physiological processes, conducted by Édouard Toulouse, and thus subjected himself to hundreds of tests that calculated his perceptual thresholds and fine motor skills.1 The doctor probed the author’s sensory-motor system, measuring everything from his field of vision and sense of touch to his heart rate, reaction to smell, memory of sounds, and sensory associations. In the p…
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Modern Sensitivity
In the mid-1890s, Émile Zola took part in a vast study of cognitive and physiological processes, conducted by Édouard Toulouse, and thus subjected himself to hundreds of tests that calculated his perceptual thresholds and fine motor skills.1 The doctor probed the author’s sensory-motor system, measuring everything from his field of vision and sense of touch to his heart rate, reaction to smell, memory of sounds, and sensory associations. In the p…
Zola’s Sense of Reality
This essay considers Emile Zola's La Joie de vivre (1884) as a study of boredom which turns into a self-reflexive study of literature itself, highlighting the ways in which the text slows down perceptions of objects, events, and the passage of time. This ‘roman psychologique' stretches the reader's attention, thereby inducing forms of ennui that mirror those experienced by the novel's characters. By examining how Zola's writing warps the ‘reality…
Art (2 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Boredom (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Humanities (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Narrative (1 works)