Balzac's Comedy of Words / / Martin Kanes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Kanes, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1540
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Approaches and Theories --; CHAPTER I. Contemporary Theory and the Dissertation sur I'homme --; CHAPTER II. From the Dissertation to La Peau de chagrin --; CHAPTER III. La Peau de chagrin and the Problem of Creativity --; CHAPTER IV. The Thought-Word Problem in the Comedie humaine --; Problems of Narration --; CHAPTER V. Language and Characterization in the Comedie humaine --; CHAPTER VI. The Narrator and his Words: The Word-Event --; CHAPTER VII. The Narrator, The Reader, and the Abolition of the Veil --; Texts --; CHAPTER VIII. Illusions perdues and the Word Game --; Afterword --; APPENDIX. The Text of the Dissertation sur Vhomme --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400869695; 9783110426847; 9783110413533; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400869695
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Kanes.

Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts. Applying a new approach, this perceptive book demonstrates that the theme and theory of language were central to Balzac's fiction. In considering how the novelist was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century speculation on language, Martin Kanes traces the development of Balzac's own linguistic ideas from his early to his later writings.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.