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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""

Abstract

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The faults between the layers of diegesis enable the informed reader to enter the Balzacian world, and to appreciate the instability of this supposedly monolithic text. This is Balzac's ultimate triumph: His artistic reproduction of early nineteenth-century France is not a still-life; rather it is, as Michel Butor observed, a mobile romanesque. It is as active, engaged readers that we set this work of art in motion.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
French
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Madden, James Connor
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Mortimer, Armine Kotin

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9953087
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86297

Chain of custody

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University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Base URL
www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Madden, James Connor. "Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine""". Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86297