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Reification and visual fascination in Flaubert, Zola, Perec and Godard
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Daniels, Brian E
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Year and Degree
2004, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, French and Italian.
Abstract
In the industrialized West we inhabit a highly visual environment saturated with myriad material and “lifestyle” commodities promising each of us more happiness, pleasure, individuality, love and beauty, etc., if we will only hear their call, and make their purchase. This project analyzes how these things have come to signify for us over the course of the last two centuries, and how we have learned to consume those meanings. I argue that philosophical and subjective revolutions taking place just before and within Romanticism coincided with market imperatives arising during the Industrial Revolution, which created a new kind of idealistic, highly visual and aestheticized relationship to fetishized goods. This relationship is now based upon the exchange values of commodities, affects our relationship with the entire material and social environment, and diminishes both our subjective differences and our understanding of the physical, material qualities of things. Two French novels of the nineteenth century, and one French novel and film from the twentieth century, are studied for the ways in which they account for, exemplify, and critique these changes.
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Eugene Holland (Advisor)
Pages
179 p.
Keywords
reification
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idealism
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romanticism
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visual fascination
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Flaubert
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Zola
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Perec
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Godard
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Daniels, B. E. (2004).
Reification and visual fascination in Flaubert, Zola, Perec and Godard
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086199688
APA Style (7th edition)
Daniels, Brian.
Reification and visual fascination in Flaubert, Zola, Perec and Godard.
2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086199688.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Daniels, Brian. "Reification and visual fascination in Flaubert, Zola, Perec and Godard." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086199688
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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