Balzac
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Balzac
（Modern literatures in perspective）
Longman, 1995
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Includes index
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pbk. ISBN 9780582087057
Description
This text on Balzac and his work includes an introduction which outlines the historical and cultural context. It explores and explains the conflicting and critical reactions to his literature. A glossary of critical terms and cultural references is included.
Table of Contents
- PART ONE CONTEMPORARY AND OTHER 19TH-CENTURY VIEWS: Introduction
- SAINTE-BEUVE - an early detractor
- VICTOR HUGO on Balzac the 'revolutionary'
- BARBEY D'AUREVILLY - a reactionary admirer
- GAUTIER on Balzac the 'seer'
- TAINE - towards a scientific view
- BAUDELAIRE on Balzac the 'visionary'
- ZOLA on (i) Balzac and the socialist cause and (ii) Balzac the 'Naturalist'
- PHILARETE CHASLES on Balzac's immorality
- LESLIE STEPHEN on Balzac and Shakespeare
- PAUL BOURGET on Balzac the 'analytical visionary'
- HENRY JAMES - the synthesis of a critical admirer. PART TWO HUMANIST READINGS: Introduction
- MARCEL PROUST on Balzac's creative surprises
- ALAIN on Balzac's style
- ERICH AUERBACH on Balzac's realism
- ALBERT BIGUIN on Balzac the "visionary"
- GEORGES POULET on Balzac's phenomenological circles. PART THREE MARXIST READINGS: Introduction
- GEORG LUKACS on Les Paysans
- PIERRE MACHEREY on Les Paysans. PART FOUR PSYCHOANALYTIC READINGS: Introduction
- MARTHE ROBERT on the Oedipal Family Romance
- FREDRIC JAMESON on La Cousine Bette
- PETER BROOKS on La Peau de chagrin. PART FIVE A FEMINIST READING: SHOSHANA FELMAN on Adieu. PART SIX STRUCTURALIST, FORMALIST AND POST-STRUCTURALIST READINGS: Introduction
- JEAN-PIERRE RICHARD on Balzac's "actantial" structures
- LUCIENNE FRAPPIER-MAZUR on the metaphorical text and novelistic reality
- JACQUES NEEFS on self-reflexivity in "Illusions perdues".
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ISBN 9780582087064
Description
This canon of French literature, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is also a major European figure in the development of realism. His work is dominated by an inter-related sequence of novels and short stories, La Comedie Humanine, which charts the idiosyncrasies of French society from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1840's. Among the most famous of these are Le Pierre Goriot and La Cousine Bette. Iin this study, Dr Tilby concentrates on the main approaches in practice and discusses some of the earliest responses to Balzac's work. His introduction and headnotes set Balzac's work in context. This book will be of interest to students of French language and literature and also to those studying French in combined studies or humanities courses.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART ONE: CONTEMPORARY AND OTHER NINETEENTHCENTURY VIEWS, PART TWO: HUMANIST READINGS, PART THREE: MARXIST READINGS, PART FOUR: PSYCHOANALYTIC READINGS, PART FIVE: A FEMINIST READING, Glossary, Notes on Authors, Further Reading, Index
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