"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
Madden, James Connor
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Description
Title
"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
Author(s)
Madden, James Connor
Issue Date
1999
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Mortimer, Armine Kotin
Department of Study
French
Discipline
French
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Romance
Language
eng
Abstract
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.
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