The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel by Woloch, Alex, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: characterization and competition in Le père Goriot and La comédie humaine -- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist.…”
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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel by Woloch, Alex, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: characterization and competition in Le père Goriot and La comédie humaine -- Sophocles's Oedipus rex and the prehistory of the protagonist.…”
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Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration. by Yousif, Keri

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Out of Bounds: Book Illustration in France, 1830-1848 -- 1 The Frames of Competition: Balzac, Grandville, and Caricature -- 2 Caging the Writer: Les scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux -- 3 Penning the Illustrator: Caricature and Illustration in La comédie humaine -- 4 The Illustrator Unbound: Grandville's Un autre monde -- Conclusion: Cat and Mouse -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Catherine de' Medici. by De Balzac, Honore

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Birth and death in nineteenth-century french culture

Table of Contents: “…Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; George Sand: la genèse des fins de romans; Flaubert, Apuleius and Ovid: The Genesis of a Recurring Theme; Perdue en traduction: Translation, Betrayal and Death in Mérimée's Carmen; Le Tombeau de la Poésie: Strategies of Textual Resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville; Wilde's Salomé: Tenses, Tension and Progression in Salomé's Final Monologue; Figures de l'artiste et comédiens du réel: de la difficile naissance à l'implacable mort dans La Comédie humaine.…”
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Pleasure and pain in nineteenth-century French literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I The Novel; Jouir / souffrir: le sensible et la fiction; Balzac's Convivial Narrations: Intoxication and its Discourse in La Comédie humaine; The Zero-Sum Game of Providential Pain: Balzac's L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine; Part II Crime and Punishment; L'Affaire Lacenaire ou les jouissances de l'exhibitionnisme criminel au temps du romantisme; Le sex-appeal de la Veuve: guillotine et fantasmes romantiques; Le 'bonheur dans le crime': le plaisir de perdre et de se perdre chez Barbey d'Aurevilly; Part III Écritures Féminines.…”
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