Honoré de Balzac Criticism
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Balzac, Honoré de (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Criticism
- Balzac's Metaphors
- A Web of Conspiracy: Structure and Metaphor in Balzac's Novels
- Introduction to Balzac and His Reader: A Study of the Creation of Meaning in La Comédie Humaine
- Balzac and the Drama of Perspective: The Narrator in Selected Works of La Comédie Humaine
- Making the Revolution Private: Balzac's Les Chouans and Une épisode sous la Terreur
- The Feminine Conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette
- Balzac's Go-between: The Case of Honorine
- ‘Le Texte de la Vie des Femmes’: Female Melancholia in Eugénie Grandet
- Women in the Discourse of Balzac's Horace Bianchon
- Theatre as Metaphor in La Comédie humaine
- Madness and Military History in Balzac's ‘Adieu’
- The Allusive Complex of Balzac's Pierrette
- ‘Tomber dans le phénomène’: Balzac's Optics of Narration
- Balzac and the Unity of Knowledge
- The Claims of the Dead: History, Haunted Property, and the Law
- Introduction to Balzac's Shorter Fictions
- Vautrin and Same-Sex Desire in Le Père Goriot
- Desert, Desire, Dezesperance: Space and Play in Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.
- Further Reading
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Balzac, Honoré de (Short Story Criticism)
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Criticism
- Works Sighted in a Frame Narrative by Balzac: Facino Cane
- How to Do Things with Dreams: Dream Power in Balzac and Nerval
- Know Thyself vs. Common Knowledge: Bleich's Epistemology Seen through Two Short Stories by Balzac
- Painting as Intertext in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, Balzac, and ‘La Vengeance d'une femme.’
- Absolute Fetishism: Genius and Identification in Balzac's ‘Unknown Masterpiece.’
- Melville's Séraphita: Billy Budd, Sailor.
- ‘The Other Woman’: Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La fille aux yeux d'or
- ‘Le Dernier Coup de Pinceau’: Perception and Generality in Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu.
- Further Reading