Brian Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9981-5813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Assommoir
Nana
‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’ Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and…
Crossbars of the Universe
The French poet and translator Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997) once said that translation was impossible, though “human beings have only succeeded in achieving the impossible ... and failed to accomplish the possible”. The Guillevic scholar and translator Monique Chefdor locates a kind of physics in his poetry, an almost scientific inquiry into universal properties of human being in relation to matter itself, prehistory, and interstellar and subatom…
Earth
"Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness of the peasants' world and their visceral attachment to the land. Jean Macquart, a veteran of the battle of Solferino and now an itinerant farm labourer, is drawn into the affairs of the Fouan family when he starts courting young Franc̦oise. He becomes involved in a bitter dispute over the property of Papa Fouan when the old man divides his land between his three childr…
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature – its themes and forms, traditions and transformations – from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influent…
Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation
Translation is a cultural practice as well as a linguistic one, wielding enormous power in constructing representations of foreign cultures while simultaneously constructing the subjectivities of i
Blood on the Tracks
Driven to Excess
Chasing Rimbauds
Nana
Popular Culture in Post-War France
Naturalism in the European Novel
Part 1 Poetics: the nature of naturalism, David Baguley the naturalist text and the problem of reference, Philippe Hamon towards an aesthetic of the naturalist novel, Yves Chevrel the genesis of novelistic space: Zola's La Bete Humaine, Henri Mitterand writing history as temporality: Zola's Rougon-Macquart, James H. Reid. Part 2 Reception: the reception of naturalism in Germany, Joseph Jurt the reception of naturalism in Spain, Eamonn Rodgers Emi…
Zola and the Counter Revolution
Comment la symbolique zolienne du grand-magasin dans Au Bonheur des Dames met en oeuvre, tout en la transcendant, un capitalisme patriarchal
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
Pot-Bouille
The declared aim of Pot-Bouille was the depiction of the mentality and morals of the Parisian bourgeoisie: 'Montrer la bourgeoisie à nu, après avoir montré le peuple, et la montrer plus abominable, elle qui se dit l'ordre et l'honnêteté.'1 Paul Alexis, explaining the title of the novel, wrote: 'Aux bourgeois qui disent: nous sommes l'honneur, la morale, la famille, il [Zola] voulait répondre: ce n'est pas vrai, vous êtes le mensonge de tout cela,…
Energy and Order in Zola's L'Argent
Jacobus tenBroek, Equal Under Law
Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation
Translation is a cultural practice as well as a linguistic one, wielding enormous power in constructing representations of foreign cultures while simultaneously constructing the subjectivities of i
Zola and the Counter Revolution
Comment la symbolique zolienne du grand-magasin dans Au Bonheur des Dames met en oeuvre, tout en la transcendant, un capitalisme patriarchal
Popular Culture in Post-War France
Energy and Order in Zola's L'Argent
Jacobus tenBroek, Equal Under Law
Energy and Order in Zola's L'Argent
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
Zola and the Bourgeoisie
Pot-Bouille
The declared aim of Pot-Bouille was the depiction of the mentality and morals of the Parisian bourgeoisie: 'Montrer la bourgeoisie à nu, après avoir montré le peuple, et la montrer plus abominable, elle qui se dit l'ordre et l'honnêteté.'1 Paul Alexis, explaining the title of the novel, wrote: 'Aux bourgeois qui disent: nous sommes l'honneur, la morale, la famille, il [Zola] voulait répondre: ce n'est pas vrai, vous êtes le mensonge de tout cela,…
Zola and the Counter Revolution
Comment la symbolique zolienne du grand-magasin dans Au Bonheur des Dames met en oeuvre, tout en la transcendant, un capitalisme patriarchal
Naturalism in the European Novel
Part 1 Poetics: the nature of naturalism, David Baguley the naturalist text and the problem of reference, Philippe Hamon towards an aesthetic of the naturalist novel, Yves Chevrel the genesis of novelistic space: Zola's La Bete Humaine, Henri Mitterand writing history as temporality: Zola's Rougon-Macquart, James H. Reid. Part 2 Reception: the reception of naturalism in Germany, Joseph Jurt the reception of naturalism in Spain, Eamonn Rodgers Emi…
Popular Culture in Post-War France
Nana
Chasing Rimbauds
Driven to Excess
Blood on the Tracks
Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation
Translation is a cultural practice as well as a linguistic one, wielding enormous power in constructing representations of foreign cultures while simultaneously constructing the subjectivities of i
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature – its themes and forms, traditions and transformations – from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influent…
Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
Earth
"Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness of the peasants' world and their visceral attachment to the land. Jean Macquart, a veteran of the battle of Solferino and now an itinerant farm labourer, is drawn into the affairs of the Fouan family when he starts courting young Franc̦oise. He becomes involved in a bitter dispute over the property of Papa Fouan when the old man divides his land between his three childr…
Nana
‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’ Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and…
Crossbars of the Universe
The French poet and translator Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997) once said that translation was impossible, though “human beings have only succeeded in achieving the impossible ... and failed to accomplish the possible”. The Guillevic scholar and translator Monique Chefdor locates a kind of physics in his poetry, an almost scientific inquiry into universal properties of human being in relation to matter itself, prehistory, and interstellar and subatom…
Assommoir
Gleaning museum visitors’ behaviors by analyzing questions asked in a mobile app
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