thesis

Balzac et la représentation ou les conditions du mimétisme

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1992

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Institution:

Paris 8

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Literature

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Abstract EN:

Election and speculation are exposed by balzac's realism as mimetic behaviours, contrary to noun and name consciousness, cultural references and reader implication, which afford the novelist mediations to reality. His work thus draws back so as to assert itself as a self-reliant representation-system with regard to reality, and to be such.

Abstract FR:

Le realisme balzacien denonce l'election et la speculation comme pratiques mimetiques ; il se sert a l'inverse de la reflexivite lexicale et onomastique, des references culturelles et de la mise en scene du lecteur comme mediations vers le monde. Il opere ainsi un recul qui lui permet de se dire et d'etre un systeme de representation autonome par rapport a la realite.