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- Title
Rhetoric and ideology in Sue's Les Mystères de Paris.
- Authors
Eco, Umberto
- Abstract
This whole examination represents a method of study, employed by a reader, with a few cultural aids at his command. The details of a method of analysis may be illustrated by the results of a study of the narrative structures of "Les Mystères de Paris," by Eugène Sue. The study aims at a kind of semiological epoché. In order to understand Sue's ideological attitude at the time when he wrote this work, it is necessary to make a brief summary of his intellectual evolution. Sue himself gives a short summary of the story of this evolution in a work composed towards the end of his life. Sue has a faith in socialism and proposes models of social reform. It reveals the social conditions that result out of poverty that produced crime. Sue demonstrates in his novel how French laws offer an involuntary protection to crime and debauchery, and it must be said that his argument is exact and plausible. It is a series of montages designed for the continual and renewable gratification of its readers.
- Subjects
SUE, Eugene, 1804-1857; LES Mysteres de Paris (Book : Sue); STUDY skills; RHETORIC; IDEOLOGY; CRIME
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 1967, Vol 19, Issue 4, p551
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article