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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Honoré de Balzac"”.
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The Stakes of Mimesis: Tracing Narrative Lines in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac
… close readings of texts by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Balzac’s early fiction, I contend, grapples with questions relating to the representational practice of mimesis through an explicit engagement with Hoffmann’s work. Hoffmann’s fiction, in turn, proves itself repeatedly to contain …
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Représentations de la noblesse dans le roman français (1789-1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L’émigré, by Sénac de …
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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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Romanticism in Hubert Aquin's Prochain Episode : an intertextual reading
… to Romanticism that has shaped Prochain Épisode . To portray his narrator's identity crisis Hubert Aquin chooses Romantic literary and revolutionary figures as models such as Honoré de Balzac associated to Ferragus, le chef des Dévorants in L'Histoire des Treize ; Lord George Byron, who died …
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Intertextualité dans Béatrix de Balzac: autour de Félicité des Touches et Béatrix de Rochefide
Cette thèse porte sur la construction de deux personnages féminins retrouvés dans Béatrix, roman d'Honoré de Balzac peu connu. Notre travail se base sur la notion d'intertextualité, selon laquelle toute oeuvre porte en elle la trace d'un autre texte, trace qui peut être très visible (une citation) …
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Balzac, Financial Adviser: Society and the Birth of Modern Finance
Honoré de Balzac, through his monumental cycle 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 …
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
… to the contemporary medical and philosophical understanding of androgyny and to the literary representations of an androgyne in the works by Honoré de Balzac, Flora Tristan, Théophile Gautier, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. Gauguin’s texts include a view of androgyny both as a figure of transcendence …
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Conspiracy in Balzac and Sand's July Monarchy Fiction
… with particular reference to the work of Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and George Sand (1804–1876). In providing the first sustained scholarly exploration of conspiracy and cultural production in nineteenth–century France, it situates the novel within wider discourses on European political …
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"Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain
<p>Abstract</p><p>The album phenomenon developed in France and Spain and lasted throughout the entire nineteenth century. Albums were books with blank pages in which the owner collected contributions in the form of poetry, drawings, and music scores. These works were created for album owners by …
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… within feminist scholarship. It considers fictional discourse on the salon through Derrida’s theory of hospitality, and through feminist deconstructions of the figure of the hostess in Western narrative. Through chapters on three authors – Mme de Staël, Stendhal, and Balzac – the …
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Wallpapering the novel: economics, aesthetics, and the realist home
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