Honoré de Balzac
By: edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Fool's gold : the beginning of Balzac's Illusions perdues / Lawrence R. Schehr; title: Systematic realism / William W. Stowe; title: Victor Marchand : the narrator as story seller Balzac's "El Verdugo" / Janet L. Beizer; title: Reflections on Balzacian models of representation / Roland Le Huenen and Paul Perron; title: Balzac's illusions lost and found / D.A. Miller; title: Epigrams and ministerial eloquence : the war of words in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin / David F. Bell; title: Discourse, power, and necessity : contextualizing Le Cousin Pons / Jane A. Nicholson; title: Eugénie Grandet's career as heavenly exile / Alexander Fischler; title: Cousin Bette : Balzac and the historiography of difference / Scott McCracken; title: The framed image : the chain of metaphors in Balzac's Le Père Goriot / Leslie Anne Boldt; title: The feminine conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette / James R. McGuire; title: Structures : organizing a fictional universe/ Martin Kanes; title: The crisis of narrative doubling : Balzac's La Comédie humaine / Beatrice Guenther; title: Balzac's allegories of energy in La Comédie humaine / Christine Raffini.