Reappearing characters in nineteenth-century French literature :
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[Book]
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authorship, originality, and intellectual property /
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Sotirios Paraschas.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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[2018]
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1 online resource
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Palgrave studies in modern European literature
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: 'La littérature ruminante'; Fictional Characters as Original Creations; Fictional Characters and Literary Property; Reappearing Characters, Originality, and Literary Property; Part I: Originality and the Reappearance of Characters; Chapter 2: 'Le revenant littéraire': Balzac and the Reappearance of Characters as a Strategy of Re-appropriation; 'Le procédé ruminatoire': Criticism and 'le retour de personnages'; Criticism and Stage Adaptations; Stage Adaptations and the Law; Balzac and Stage Adaptations.
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Chapter 4: The Poetics of Forgery in Charles Rabou's Continuation of Balzac's Le Député d'ArcisResurrecting Characters or 'Que la dernière incarnation de Vautrin n'était pas la dernière'; Rabou and the Reappearance of Characters; Unauthorised Appropriation, False Paternity, and Counterfeiting; Chapter 5: 'Tous pour un, un pour tous': Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, and the Musketeers Trilogy; Dumas and Maquet; Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Collaborative Authorship; 'Tous pour un, un pour tous': The Dynamics of Friendship in Les Trois Mousquetaires.
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Friends and Employers in Vingt ans aprèsUnacknowledged Heroes in Le Vicomte de Bragelonne; Chapter 6: 'Le collaborateur fantomatique': Zola, William Busnach, and the Stage Adaptations of Les Rougon-Macquart; 'Author, Author ... '; Naturalism and Adaptation; Zola, Busnach, and Literary Collaboration; 'Théâtre anti-réaliste': Naturalism and Melodrama; Germinal on Stage; Chapter 7: Concluding Reflections; Appendix A: List of the Stage Adaptations of Balzac's Works during His Lifetime; Appendix B: List of the Changes in the Description of the Heredity of the Rougon-Macquart; Bibliography; Index.
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The Reappearance of Characters as a Strategy of Re-appropriationBalzac at the Scene of the Crime: Vautrin; Chapter 3: 'Le revenant héréditaire': The Reappearance of Characters in Les Rougon-Macquart; Le Docteur Pascal, a 'Sequel'; Zola, the Anxiety of Influence, and the Reappearance of Characters; Prosper Lucas, Heredity, and Innateness; The Reappearance of Characters, Heredity, and the Family Tree; Zola and Innateness; Le Docteur Pascal and 'la lutte des deux écrivains ennemis'; Part II: Silent Partnerships.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of canonical authors such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola is usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural, economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view they are considered to be 'ideas' which are not protected and can be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783319692906
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9783319692890
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Reappearing characters in 19th-century French literature
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
French literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.