Stylistics and Society in La Curee Author(s): Sandy Petrey Source: MLN, Vol. 89, No. 4, French Issue (May, 1974), pp. 626-640 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2907329 . Accessed: 09/01/2011 16:31
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C BY SANDY PETREY 4 La Curee's of the Second Empire as a capitalist society in which depiction alienationof humanity a nearlycompleted processis the source of is but itsartistic success.That is notan ideological statement an aesthetic judgement. It does not mean that good social novels necessarily communicate a similarvision of the human ravages of a capitalist economy, nor does it mean that the politicalcorrectnessof Zola's observationof a reifiedworld inspired him