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Balzac, Literary Sociologist

By: Allan H. Pasco

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Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comédie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate insights into the relationships that defined his turbulent society. His repeated claim to be an "historian of manners" was more than an empty boast. Though Balzac was first and foremost a great novelist, he was also a trailblazing sociologist, joining Henri de Saint-Simon and the subsequent Auguste Comte in considering the relationships that represent society as an interacting, interlocking web. Using a methodology that combines close analysis with a broad cultural context, Pasco demonstrates that Balzac's sociological vision was extraordinarily pertinent to both his and our days.

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3319393332

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9783319393339

Novel Configurations

A Study of French Fiction

By: Allan H. Pasco

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Novel Configurations

A Study of French Fiction

By: Allan H. Pasco

During a period when the field of literary studies turned away from texts to "theory," Novel Configurations: A Study of French Fiction has become an underground classic. Although it proposes a theory, that theory is inductive and solidly based in real works of fiction. While looking again at significant masterpieces that range from the early nineteenth-to the late twentieth-centuries, from the creations of traditional french writers to that of an Argentine who spent most of his productive life in France. Allan H. Pasco has perceptively indicted new but valid close readings that have revolutionized our view of these works. He suggests that La Chartreuse de Parme is rigorously organized, that Balzac was a narrational minimalists, that Huysmans developed novelistic strategies that would be played out in the Nouvea Roman, that Proust intended good readers to come away from A la recherche du temps perdu with very different but complementary interpretations, that Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie turns on a plot that seems strange only because it takes place in the mind of the narrator. From these philololgically sophisticated interpretations, Pasco lucidly, elegantly, and wittily points to categories that include all fiction. Concentrating on patterns and description, on the one hand, and external and internal organization, on the other, Novel configurations proposes a new classification that can be easily taught to novices though it will help even professional readers understand the most complex fictional innovations.

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236

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Summa Publications, Inc.

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1883479002

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9781883479008

Allusion

A Literary Graft

By: Allan H. Pasco

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Allusion

A Literary Graft

By: Allan H. Pasco

Originally published in 1994, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet.

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Rookwood Press

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1886365210

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9781886365216

Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France

By: Allan H. Pasco

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Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France

By: Allan H. Pasco

In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society. Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, Allan Pasco examines the conceptual shift in the ideal of love in eighteenth-century France. Pasco explores the radical, though gradual, changes that occurred during the Enlightenment with respect to how the emotion of love was viewed. Earlier, love had been subordinate to the demands of family, king, and deity; passion was dangerous, and to be avoided. But over time, individual happiness became the "greatest good," and passion the measure of love. Authors as diverse as Marivaux, Marmontel, Rousseau, Baculard d'Arnaud, Pigault-Lebrun and Madame de Staël make it clear that the ideal of rapturous love did not live up to its billing: it did not last, and it brought destructive fantasies, an epidemic of disease, the "scourge" of divorce, and considerable anguish. Still, as Pasco points out, passion became and remained the ideal, and the Romantics were left to plumb its nature.

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Routledge

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1351903284

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9781351903288

The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

Masterpieces in Miniature

By: Allan Pasco

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The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

Masterpieces in Miniature

By: Allan Pasco

The 19th-Century French Short Story, by eminent scholar, Allan H. Pasco, seeks to offer a more comprehensive view of the definition, capabilities, and aims of short stories. The book examines general instances of the genre specifically in 19th-century France by recognizing their cultural context, demonstrating how close analysis of texts effectively communicates their artistry, and arguing for a distinction between middling and great short stories. Where previous studies have examined the writers of short stories individually, The 19th-Century French Short Story takes a broader lens to the subject, and looks at short story writers as they grapple with the artistic, ethical, and social concerns of their day. Making use of French short story masterpieces, with reinforcing comparisons to works from other traditions, this book offers the possibility of a more adequate appreciation of the under-valued short story genre.

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1000134741

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Balzac, Literary Sociologist

By: Allan H. Pasco

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The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

Masterpieces in Miniature

By: Allan Pasco

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Balzac, Literary Sociologist

Balzac, Literary Sociologist

Novel Configurations

Novel Configurations

Allusion

Allusion

Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France

Revolutionary Love in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century France

The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

Balzac, Literary Sociologist

Balzac, Literary Sociologist

The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story

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