Honoré de Balzac / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
| Other author | Bloom, Harold. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2003. |
| Description | viii, 243 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bloom's modern critical views Bloom's modern critical views. ^A559189 |
| Contents | Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Fool's gold : the beginning of Balzac's Illusions perdues / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Systematic realism / William W. Stowe -- Victor Marchand : the narrator as story seller Balzac's "El Verdugo" / Janet L. Beizer -- Reflections on Balzacian models of representation / Roland Le Huenen and Paul Perron -- Balzac's illusions lost and found / D.A. Miller -- Epigrams and ministerial eloquence : the war of words in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin / David F. Bell -- Discourse, power, and necessity : contextualizing Le Cousin Pons / Jane A. Nicholson -- Eugénie Grandet's career as heavenly exile / Alexander Fischler -- Cousin Bette : Balzac and the historiography of difference / Scott McCracken -- The framed image : the chain of metaphors in Balzac's Le Père Goriot / Leslie Anne Boldt -- The feminine conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette / James R. McGuire -- Structures : organizing a fictional universe/ Martin Kanes -- The crisis of narrative doubling : Balzac's La Comédie humaine / Beatrice Guenther -- Balzac's allegories of energy in La Comédie humaine / Christine Raffini. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002009599 |
| ISBN | 0791070425 |