The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac

Author: Owen Heathcote

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1316867382

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One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.

The Cambridge Companion to Balzac
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac

Author: Owen Heathcote

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1107066476

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Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

Author: Timothy Unwin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521499149

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This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

Author: Stan Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1139827138

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This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

Author: Gerald Dawe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1108420354

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A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521588126

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

Author: Harriet Turner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-11

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521778152

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The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.