Unwrapping Balzac : : A Reading of La Peau de Chagrin / / Samuel Weber.

This radically new reading of La peau de charin presents a case for Balzac as a modern rather than a traditional, realist writer. Using the principles and languages of Marx, Derrida, Freud, Barthea, and others who have contributed to a redefinition of modern criticism, Samuel Weber presents a detail...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1979
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. 'La tres spirituelle epigraphe du livre... '
  • 3. Work and Play
  • 4. The Entry
  • 5. Postponement
  • 6. The Store
  • 7. The Truce of a Text
  • 8. The Canard
  • 9. A Burst of Laughter
  • 10. Patrimony
  • 11. The Broken Net
  • 12. The Matrix
  • 13. 'Ces riens qui ont tant de prix ... '
  • 14. Speculation
  • 15. Going (for) Broke
  • 16. The 'Dissipational System'
  • 17. The Signature and the Voice
  • 18. Antiphrasis
  • 19. A Remark on Reading
  • 20. Origen, or the Automat
  • 21. Revue 1: The Perils of Pauline Raphael's
  • 22. Revue 2: Diagnosis
  • 23. Homecoming
  • 24. Finale: Projection
  • 25. Epilogue
  • Postface: Et que devint S/Z?
  • Notes
  • Index of Proper Names