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Author: Owen Heathcote Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039105519 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
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Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Hanore de Balza. Executions, muders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the terror to Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. From and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the books moves on to the links between violence and place violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place(from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It alos examines the representiation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the bokk asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?
Author: Owen Heathcote Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039105519 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Hanore de Balza. Executions, muders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the terror to Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. From and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the books moves on to the links between violence and place violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place(from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It alos examines the representiation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the bokk asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?
Author: Alison Gayle Pryweller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Violence in literature Languages : en Pages : 50
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This thesis applies Pierre Bourdieu's concept of la violence symbolique to two nineteenth century novels by Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet and Le Père Goriot. Symbolic violence is based on the idea that a dominant can exert power, and a dominé will blindly accept the dominant as an authority given the right social environment. This concept is flexible; a man or woman can play either role. Symbolic violence is shown to form a bond between dominés and serve as a means for seducing the dominé, but it is only successful as allowed by the habitus, a subjective structure that moderates the effect of social norms on the body. This thesis also explores the possibility of breaking symbolic violence, and assesses whether or not the dominés in each novel are successful in doing so.
Author: Owen Heathcote Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316867382 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 249
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One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.
Author: Peter Brooks Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681374501 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 281
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Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.
Author: Katherine Maynard Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136990127 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 229
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In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety of narratives from the eras of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Contemporary period, and including new theories to explain the interactions that occur between legalistic courtroom justice and the vigilante variety, Revenge versus Legality analyzes some of the main obstacles to justice, ranging from judicial corruption, to racism and imperialism. The book culminates in a consideration of that form of crime or lawlessness that poses the most serious threat to the rule of law: vigilante justice masquerading as legality. With its mixture of politics, literature, law, and film, this lively and accessible book offers a timely reflection on the enduring phenomenon of revenge.
Author: Honore de Balzac Publisher: 谷月社 ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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CHAPTER I. A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY On a winter's night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d'Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,—caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child. In order not to awaken her husband who was sleeping beside her, the poor woman moved with precautions which her intense terror made as minute as those of a prisoner endeavoring to escape. Though the pains became more and more severe, she ceased to feel them, so completely did she concentrate her own strength on the painful effort of resting her two moist hands on the pillow and so turning her suffering body from a posture in which she could find no ease. At the slightest rustling of the huge green silk coverlet, under which she had slept but little since her marriage, she stopped as though she had rung a bell. Forced to watch the count, she divided her attention between the folds of the rustling stuff and a large swarthy face, the moustache of which was brushing her shoulder. When some noisier breath than usual left her husband's lips, she was filled with a sudden terror that revived the color driven from her cheeks by her double anguish. The prisoner reached the prison door in the dead of night and trying to noiselessly turn the key in a pitiless lock, was never more timidly bold.
Author: Honore De Balzac Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781095989470 Category : Languages : en Pages : 244
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In a dark affair, one of the lesser known volumes of the human comedy, Balzac used a story - the mysterious kidnapping, during the First Empire, of a senator informed of the plot conceived by Fouché against Napoleon Bonaparte - to write a book in which he used his novelistic talent to serve a political and police plot.The historical characters seem to draw all their substance here from paper creatures as present as Michu, the faithful among the faithful, or as the intrepid Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, also in love with one and the other of his twin cousins. On these relationships of storytelling with history, imagination and reality, Baptiste-Marrey delivers in his reading the reflections of a contemporary writer anxious to underline the importance of this text, which is considered one of the founding works of crime fiction in France.
Author: Owen Heathcote
Author: Owen Heathcote
Author: Joyce O. Lowrie
Author: Alison Gayle Pryweller
Author: Owen Heathcote
Author: Edward Harris Addelson
Author: Peter Brooks
Author: Katherine Maynard
Author: Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore De Balzac