Note 122 — Chapter V · SOME RHETORICAL ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES

Cf. Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History (New York, 1937), I, 82-83: “Looking over the titles of books written by Huysmans, who went from naturalism, through Satanism, to Catholicism, we find that his titles of the naturalistic period are with one exception nouns, all those of the transitional period are prepositions actually or in quality (“A-Vau-l’Eau,” “En Rade,” “A Rebours,” “La Bas,” “En Route”) and all in his period of Catholic realism are nouns.”