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mods: 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 …