Balzacian Montage Configuring

by Allan H. Pasco

Balzac's monumental work, La Com die humaine , consists of a wide range of novels, stories, and other writings which, he maintained, were to be read and understood as a whole. In this illuminating study Allen H. Pasco explores the work's unifying elements which lend weight to Balzac's claim. Pasco articulates the principles against which he measures the unity of La Com die humaine the relation of narrative to description; the relation of description...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802027768
• ISBN13: 9780802027764
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"