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This article seeks to understand the representations of soap as an object in 19th-century French realist and naturalist literature through the newly acquired hygienic concepts of cleanliness. At the crossroads between medicine and literature, soap is contextualised as an object firmly anchored in the triviality of everyday life: the ritual of the toilette, the cleaning of the body, and more particularly here, the female body. Looking at the character’s hygienic practices and representations of hygiene precepts in literature is to study the details which become, as such, the signs of intimacy and to uncover a hidden history. Drawing from material culture, it has been possible to highlight how the texts can both be the echo chambers of the medical discourse on hygiene while at the same time exceed and reflect a social and literary reality.
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Discourse Analysis and Socio-criticism. Points of convergence and divergence between heterogeneous disciplines An analysis of the places and people exercising either discourse analysis or socio-criticism, of the concepts and notions they use, and of the objects they study, shows that the main divergence between the two disciplines concerns their corpuses.
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In considering the case of a triple dream covering T three distinct periods in the life of Leiris, we advance the hypothesis that the narrative (the work) of a dream element in an autobiography incorporates four sorts of data : the reconstituted text of the dream, the lived experience contemporaneous with the reconstituted text, the preceding or subsequent lived experience recalled through association and, finally, effects of style which are properly speaking textual and which appear in the course of ' literary' execution. Such effects of style can he generated only through and within the tensions of the writing and are thus effects of text. For the reader-critic reinterpreting this rewriting, this latter material is crucial, even if the status of such material is problematical so far as the relation to the author and his awareness of it is concerned.
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