Balzac's shorter fictions genesis and genre Farrant, Tim. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xii, 356 pages) Suitable for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction, this text explores the nature of short fiction and how Balzac's novels developed from his stories. Intro; CONTENTS; NOTE ON TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. PHILOSOPHIES OF COMPOSITION: From Corsino to the Code des gens honnêtes, 1818-1825; (i) Narrative as Illustration: the Discours sur l'immortalité de l'âme and Corsino; (ii) Mimesis: 'deux histoires'; (iii) The Code des gens honnêtes and the Limits of Prescription; (iv) The Limits of Prescription; 2. FROM CODE TO PHYSIOLOGIE, 1826-1829; (i) Doxa and Dialogue: Anecdotes, Codes, and the Physiologie; (ii) Prescription and Description in the Physiologie; (iii) A Physiology of Literary Illusion; (iv) Types of Reading in the 1829 Physiologie 3. THE FIRST SCÈNES DE LA VIE PRIVÉE, 1829-1830(i) The Physiologie du mariage and the Scènes de la vie privée; (ii) The Scènes de la vie privée and the conte moral; (iii) Scènes, Tableaux, and Le Dernier Chouan; (iv) The Composition of the Scènes de la vie privée; 4. NARRATIVES AND NEWSPAPERS, 1829-1830; (i) El Verdugo, Les Deux Rêves, Un épisode sous la Terreur, Adieu; (ii) Articles, observation de moeurs, and Pen-portraits; (iii) Caricature, Satire, and the Fantastic; (iv) From Newspaper to Narrative; 5. BALZAC AND THE LITERARY REVIEWS, October 1830-August 1831 (I) October 1830-August 1831: A New Form, the Literary Review(ii) Balzac's Stories for the Reviews: L'Élixir de longue vie, L'Enfant maudit, Une passion dans le désert, Le Réquisitionnaire; (iii) Portrait and Enigma: Sarrasine; (iv) Contes historiques and contes artistes: Les Proscrits and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu; (v) The Fantastic, the Real, and the Frame Story; 6. FROM LA PEAU DE CHAGRIN TO THE CONTES DROLATIQUES, 1831-1832; (i) La Peau de chagrin; (ii) The Romans et contes philosophiques; (iii) Renaissance Models and Contemporary Reality in Balzac's Work, 1831-1832 (Iv) The First dixain of Contes drolatiques (1832)7. BALZAC, 'ROI DE LA NOUVELLE': From the Contes bruns to Le Curé de Tours, 1832; (i) Art or Income? The Commercial Background, 1831-1832; (ii) Contes bruns: Une conversation entre onze heures et minuit and Le Grand d'Espagne; La Grande Bretèche; (iii) Fiction and Truth: Le Message and Madame Firmiani; (iv) From La Transaction to Le Colonel Chabert; (v) La Bourse and La Femme de trente ans [I]; (vi) Les Célibataires (F: Le Curé de Tours); 8. ANOTHER DESTINY? From Louis Lambert to Le Père Goriot, September 1832-March 1835 (I) Louis Lambert and Le Médecin de Campagne(ii) Two Types of Tale: La Grenadière and La Femme abandonnée; (iii) Les Marana and the Break with the Revue; (iv) Form and Fragmentation: From Ferragus to the Second Contes drolatiques; (v) Contes drolatiques: secund dixain; (vi) L'Illustre Gaudissart and Un drame au bord de la mer; (vii) Eugénie Grandet; (viii) Le Père Goriot; 9. BUILDING THE CATHEDRAL, 1835-1838; (i) Études de mœurs and Études philosophiques, Introductions; (ii) Melmoth réconcilié and La Fille aux yeux d'or Tim Farrant. Includes bibliographical references and index. Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 Criticism and interpretation Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 Critique et interprétation Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 Short stories, French History and criticism Short stories, French 19th century History and criticism Romance Literatures Languages & Literatures French Literature Nouvelles françaises 19e siècle Histoire et critique Nouvelles françaises Histoire et critique French European Short stories, French Verhalen 1800-1899 fast PQ2181 .F37 2002eb 843/.7 18.25 Balzac's shorter fictions Farrant, Tim. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002283794 (OCoLC)48468508 0585486352 9780585486352 1280375000 9781280375002 9780191710247 0191710245 0198151977 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/26738 N$T 031226 20260318171623.6 in00005701064 eng