"Cavemen Among Us: Genealogies of
Atavism from Zola's La Bete humaine to Chabrol's Le Boucher." French Studies 62.1 (January 2008): 39-52.
At this step confusion between parallelism on one hand, and
atavism, reversal, and pronatism on the other, is possible.
Indeed, Bordenave positioning Nana as a sexual object provokes the formation of a social aggregation closely associated with
atavism in the late-nineteenth century: the crowd.3 While the connections between Zola's fiction and the work of Gustave Le Bon have long been established (see Matthews 1958, 109-113), the relationship between Nana and Le Bon's crowd theory has been noted only fleetingly.
Though Lombroso and Ferri were popular,
atavism and the idea of the born criminal were widely rejected.
Developmental echanisms underlying the formation of
atavisms. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, no.
Even having studied Launcelot's jocular psychoses in 2.2, I confess that I have not considered his parody of biblical scripture as Christian
atavism (given his dialogue with both benevolent and demonic forces and his choice to follow the latter).
Erich (1962) reported a case of double nose and supported Lindsey's theory (1906) of the dichotomy by
atavism or parallel evolution.
Focusing on Miau, Bell discusses the portrayal of characters in terms of animalization and
atavism, showing how Galdos applies the principle of ontogenetic recapitulation.
Nor was the Revolution the work of urban militants overcoming the
atavism of their rural peers.
Shopworn tropes from 1950's film: the great white hunter, the buxom damsel in distress, the unscrupulous impresario, unevolved races metaphorized as animal instinct correspond to settings similarly invested with transparent topological symbolism--the metropolis as a landscape of technological achievement, intricate patterns of social and economic integration, and the jungle as
atavism, a riot of carnality and bloodlust.
Trinity United is an
atavism of the 1960s, with all the ties anyone would care to find to Louis Farrakhan and Muammar Quadaffi.
Though at times Goulet hints at the larger ideological implications of the optical debates played out throughout the century--espe- cially in the chapter entitled 'Tropical Piercings: Nationalism,
Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse," where she treats the problem of nationalism and empire--the gender politics of the gaze make a short cameo appearance rather late in the book in the chapter concerning L' Eve future.
