Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
La Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacLa Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacBalzac and the Model of Painting
Author: Diana KnightPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1905981066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honore de Balzac's Commedie humaine which, from Marx to Lukacs to Roland Barthes's enormously influential S/Z (1970), has been a key literary work for critical debates around French realism. In a series of close readings, Diana Knight explores Barthes's 'model of painting' - the metaphorical code of painting and sculpture that underpins realist discourse - in the context of Balzac's fictional representations of the relation between artists, their models and their works of art. Whereas critics have tended to denounce Balzac's realist aesthetic as complicit with the misogyny of the society he portrays, Balzac and the Model of Painting takes the artist-model relationship, variously gendered in these stories, as the focus of the author's powerful realist critique of the sexual politics of prostitution and marriage in nineteenth-century France.
Theatre in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
Author: Linzy Erika DickinsonPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042005495
Category : The human comedy (Balzac) Toneel
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This study of Balzac's work examines theater in La Comedie humaine both as a theme in itself and for its influence on Balzac's techniques and modes of presentation in his novels, and demonstrates the symbiotic influence of novel and stage on Balzac's work as a playwright and novelist. Gives an account of his experience in theater, and examines the history of his portrayal of the theater world and how this portrayal serves his narrative purpose. Demonstrates how and why Balzac relies on the theater for metaphor and expressive devices, and shows how he brought scrutiny of the capitalist ethos to the stage. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Honoré de Balzac: Scenes of Parisian life
Author: Honoré de BalzacUrsule Mirouet
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Thirteen
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776538374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This series of three novellas is unified by an overarching motif: in all three tales, a mysterious secret society known as The Thirteen is at work behind the scenes. The men in the group have pledged eternal loyalty to each other, and if any member ever finds himself in peril, it is the sworn duty of the others to come to his aid. Honore de Balzac uses this premise as a device to explore a wide range of topics, including clashes between different classes of society, doomed romances, and intrigue driven by greed.
Eugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 9780460001694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.
La Comedie Humaine of Honore De Balzac; Volume 1
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017414769
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Author: Honor ̌de Balzac