The epistemology of the mantelpiece: subversive ornaments in the fiction of Guy de Maupassant
This article examines episodes from three novels by Guy de Maupassant, "Notre Cœur" (1890), "Bel-Ami" (1885), and "Pierre et Jean" (1888), and analyses how mantelpieces and ornaments become a privileged topos for the fictional investigation of epistemology and the pheno...
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Modern Humanities Research Association
2008
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