For love or for money
Subtitle: Balzac's rhetorical realism
By: Armine Kotin Mortimer
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780814211694; 9780814292686
Subjects: Money in literature; Love in literature; Realism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the prime movers; title: Mimetic figures of semiosis; title: From heteronomy to unity : Les Chouans; title: Tenebrous affairs and necessary explications; title: Self-narration and the fakery of imitation; title: The double representation of the history of César Birotteau; title: La maison Nucingen, a financial narrative; title: Myth and mendacity : Pierrette and Beatrice Cenci; title: The corset of La vieille fille; title: Genealogy and the unmarried in La rabouilleuse; title: Ursule Mirouët : genealogy and inheritance; title: Un prince de la bohème and Pierre Grassou, or how love makes money; title: Voyages of reflection, reflections on voyages; title: Balzac and Poe : realizing magnetism; title: Chemistry and composition : la recherche de l'absolu; title: The capital of money and the science of magnetism : Melmoth réconcilié; title: Love, music, and opium : medical semiotics of Massimilla Doni; title: The languages of sex; title: Composed past and historical present; title: Problems of closure; title: Conclusion : Balzac's invention of realism.