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Balzac and the Model of Painting

2017-12-02 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Balzac and the Model of Painting by : Diana Knight

Download or read book Balzac and the Model of Painting written by Diana Knight. This book was released on 2017-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honore de Balzac's Comedie humaine which, from Marx to Lukacs to Roland Barthes's enormously influential S/Z (1970), has been a key literary work for critical debates around French realism. In a series of close readings, Diana Knight explores Barthes's 'model of painting' - the metaphorical code of painting and sculpture that underpins realist discourse - in the context of Balzac's fictional representations of the relation between artists, their models and their works of art. Whereas critics have tended to denounce Balzac's realist aesthetic as complicit with the misogyny of the society he portrays,Balzac and the Model of Painting takes the artist-model relationship, variously gendered in these stories, as the focus of the author's powerful realist critique of the sexual politics of prostitution and marriage in nineteenth-century France."

The Unknown Masterpiece

1900
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Release : 1900
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Book Synopsis The Unknown Masterpiece by : Honoré de Balzac

Download or read book The Unknown Masterpiece written by Honoré de Balzac. This book was released on 1900. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Balzac

2017-02-02 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Balzac by : Owen Heathcote

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Balzac written by Owen Heathcote. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

Balzac and Violence

2009 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Balzac and Violence by : Owen Heathcote

Download or read book Balzac and Violence written by Owen Heathcote. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media

2019 Absence in literature
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Release : 2019
Genre : Absence in literature
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Book Synopsis Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media by : Werner Wolf

Download or read book Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media written by Werner Wolf. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, etc., treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf

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