Balzac's comedy of words / Martin Kanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kanes, Martin, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850--Language.

Balzac, Honoré de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts. Applying a new approach, this perceptive book demonstrates that the theme and theory of language were central to Balzac's fiction. In considering how the novelist was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century speculation on language, Martin Kanes traces the development of Balzac's own linguistic ideas from his early to his later writings.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Approaches and Theories

CHAPTER I. Contemporary Theory and the Dissertation sur I'homme

CHAPTER II. From the Dissertation to La Peau de chagrin

CHAPTER III. La Peau de chagrin and the Problem of Creativity

CHAPTER IV. The Thought-Word Problem in the Comedie humaine

Problems of Narration

CHAPTER V. Language and Characterization in the Comedie humaine

CHAPTER VI. The Narrator and his Words: The Word-Event

CHAPTER VII. The Narrator, The Reader, and the Abolition of the Veil

Texts

CHAPTER VIII. Illusions perdues and the Word Game

Afterword

APPENDIX. The Text of the Dissertation sur Vhomme

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64461-6

0-691-61747-3

1-4008-6969-2

OCLC:

902958012