Arbitrating the Arbitrary? Taste in Rachilde’s Fin-de-Siècle Book Reviews/Arbitrer l’arbitraire? Le goût selon Rachilde dans ses comptes rendus fin de siècle
During the first decade of her Mercure de France book review column, Rachilde evolved from an avant-garde provocatrice to an established literary figure. While denigrating bourgeois taste and traditional critical authority, Rachilde asserted the critic’s duty to champion literary underdogs and t...
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The University of Western Australia
2023-11-01
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Series: | Essays in French Literature and Culture |
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Online Access: | https://essaysinfrenchliteratureandculture.wordpress.com/helen-craske-arbitrating-the-arbitrary-taste-in-rachildes-fin-de-siecle-book-reviews-arbitrer-larbitraire-le-gout-selon-rachilde-dans-ses-comptes-rendus-fin-de-siecle-essays-in-f/ |