Balzac and Violence
Title | Balzac and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Heathcote |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783039105519 |
Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Hanore de Balza. Executions, muders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the terror to Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. From and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the books moves on to the links between violence and place violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place(from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It alos examines the representiation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the bokk asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?
The Violent Mystique
Title | The Violent Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce O. Lowrie |
Publisher | Librairie Droz |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Atonement in literature |
ISBN | 9782600035354 |
Framing the Dominant and the Dominé
Title | Framing the Dominant and the Dominé PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Gayle Pryweller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Violence in literature |
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This thesis applies Pierre Bourdieu's concept of la violence symbolique to two nineteenth century novels by Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet and Le Père Goriot. Symbolic violence is based on the idea that a dominant can exert power, and a dominé will blindly accept the dominant as an authority given the right social environment. This concept is flexible; a man or woman can play either role. Symbolic violence is shown to form a bond between dominés and serve as a means for seducing the dominé, but it is only successful as allowed by the habitus, a subjective structure that moderates the effect of social norms on the body. This thesis also explores the possibility of breaking symbolic violence, and assesses whether or not the dominés in each novel are successful in doing so.
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Owen Heathcote |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316867382 |
One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.
Crime and the Criminal in the Novels of Balzac
Title | Crime and the Criminal in the Novels of Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Harris Addelson |
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Pages | |
Release | 1956 |
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Revenge Versus Legality
Title | Revenge Versus Legality PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Maynard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2010-04-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136990127 |
In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety of narratives from the eras of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Contemporary period, and including new theories to explain the interactions that occur between legalistic courtroom justice and the vigilante variety, Revenge versus Legality analyzes some of the main obstacles to justice, ranging from judicial corruption, to racism and imperialism. The book culminates in a consideration of that form of crime or lawlessness that poses the most serious threat to the rule of law: vigilante justice masquerading as legality. With its mixture of politics, literature, law, and film, this lively and accessible book offers a timely reflection on the enduring phenomenon of revenge.
Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Title | Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet PDF eBook |
Author | Honore de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1950 |
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