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Teaching the naturalist novel: Emile Zola.
Abstract
Using Zola's method of writing evidenced in the speech of the Sandoz character as a model, the students in a freshman honors course (Honors 156) are able to deconstruct The Masterpiece as a means to understand Zola's naturalist approach to literature. The subsequent reconstruction of the novel enables students to demonstrate a familiarity with French naturalism that exceeds typical expectations of the freshman classroom.
Introduction
Teaching a 19th-century French naturalist novel in a freshman-level English course at a predominately blue-collar commuter university in an economically depressed region firmly rooted in the rust belt of ...
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