Weaving Balzac's Web

by James Madden
Weaving Balzac's Web
Author: James Madden
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781883479411
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This study explores the process by which Balzac made use of the unique structure of his fictional world to create subtlety and complexity both within and between the individual works of "La Comedie humaine." Internal narrations--scenes of story-telling--offer a particularly rich field of study as characters tell each other stories about other characters. Because of the system of recurring characters, Balzac's narrative framing creates layers of meaning, thus raising questions that resonate throughout the whole textual edifice. "Weaving Balzac's Web" shows how story-telling scenes can serve as windows into the depths of Balzac's masterpiece and reveal the carefully construction complexities and ambiguities that lie enmeshed in its vast narrative web.

Orientation in European Romanticism

by Paul Hamilton
Orientation in European Romanticism
Author: Paul Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009268244
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Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.

Literature and Inequality

by Daniel Shaviro
Literature and Inequality
Author: Daniel Shaviro
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785273671
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The consequences of high-end inequality seep into almost every aspect of human life: it is not just a question for economists. In this highly accessible new work, Professor Shaviro takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore how great works of literature have provided some of the most incisive accounts of inequality and its social and cultural ramifications over the last two centuries. Through perceptive close readings of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Edith Wharton, among others, he not only demonstrates how these accounts are still relevant today, but how they can illuminate our understanding of our current situation and broaden our own perspective beyond the merely economic.

Honoré de Balzac

by Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1900
Genre:
ISBN:
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Balzac

by Graham Robb
Balzac
Author: Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393313871
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A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Balzac's early literary disappointments, impractical money-making schemes, love affairs, correspondences, and achievements.

Collected Works of Honore de Balzac. Illustrated

by Honore de Balzac
Collected Works of Honore de Balzac. Illustrated
Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 15515
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Balzac sought to present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but completely human. His labyrinthine city provided a literary model used later by English novelist Charles Dickens and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.. An original illustration.

A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

by Honoré de Balzac
A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1788775198
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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Balzac includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Balzac’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles