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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Comédie humaine"”.
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La Grâce dans les portraits de "La Comédie humaine" d’Honoré de Balzac : sens et fonctions discursives
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), auteur de La Comédie humaine, est connu pour ses descriptions réalistes. Les descriptions de personnages chez Balzac, c’est-à-dire les portraits littéraires, saisissent les personnages dans les temps précis et dans les espaces sociaux, politiques et économiques qui les …
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Balzac, Financial Adviser: Society and the Birth of Modern Finance
… of novels and short stories that constitute La Comédie humaine, bears witness to early nineteenth-century, post-revolutionary, French society. This analysis will situate six of his key works within the more subtle yet equally powerful revolution also taking place, that of industrialization. His …
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… third chapter explores three texts from Balzac’s Comédie humaine, asking whether even Balzac’s most eulogistic writings on the salon do not in fact do the work of ensuring its obsolescence, positioning the Realist narrator as successor to the salon hostess in allowing access to the monde. Each of …