Balzac's Comedy of Words

by Martin Kanes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617473
• ISBN13: 9780691617473
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"