LA MÉTAPHORE VESTIMENTAIRE DES ROUGON-MAQUART DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS
THE METAPHORS OF CLOTHING IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to organize, while analyzing, the plethora of metaphors of clothing conveyed by Zola’s Rougon-Macquart. Our categorisation, which takes into account the disciplines/topics associated to these metaphors, opens the way to some more focused analyses (on a title or on a character, for instance) and to the in-depth exploration of a limited number of metaphors. The originality of our study consists in combining the stylistic analysis of the compared/comparing clothing with a semiotic analysis that places the clothing as sign in a well-established system based on Zola’s Rougon-Macquart, where the meaning of clothing is associated to a value judgment (or judgment of socialisation) able to be interpreted by both Zola’s contemporaries and today’s readership.

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