Author: John R. O'ConnorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Balzac's Soluble Fish
Author: John R. O'ConnorBalzac and Violence
Author: Owen HeathcotePublisher: 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?
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author: Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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The Aesthetics of the Rougon-Macquart
Author: John Andrew FreyThe Object in Zola's Rougon-Macquart
Author: Lewis KammPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Les Rougon-Macquart est le titre collectif donné à un cycle de vingt romans de l'écrivain français Émile Zola. Il suit la vie des membres des deux branches titulaires d'une famille fictive vivant sous le Second Empire français (1852-1870) et est l'une des œuvres les plus importantes du mouvement littéraire du naturalisme français.
Llinqua
Author: Language and Literature Index Quarterly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Paratextuality in Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin
Author: Jeri DeBois KingPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This work is several studies in one, beginning with a positivistic examination of the paratext (subtitles, epigraphs, both editorial and authorial) that surrounds Balzac's first signed novel. It yields several readings. Numerous references to critics like Barthes and Greenblatt support the author's attempt at a deconstructive reading of Balzac, subverting the positivistic approach to the text by focusing on extra-textual elements, with the help of Genette. This study, is an exercise in post-structuralist criticism, a celebration of Balzac, and a demonstration of the implications of Genette's work in contemporary literary criticism, useful to both the beginner and the graduate student of Balzac.
Nineteenth Century French Fiction Writers
Author: Catharine Savage BrosmanPublisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of nineteen French writers of Romantic and realistic fiction active between 1800 and 1860; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
The French Review
Author: James Frederick MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description