附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; CONTENTS; NOTE ON TEXTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. PHILOSOPHIES OF COMPOSITION: From Corsino to the Code des gens honnêtes, 1818-1825; (i) Narrative as Illustration: the Discours sur l'immortalité de l'âme and Corsino; (ii) Mimesis: 'deux histoires'; (iii) The Code des gens honnêtes and the Limits of Prescription; (iv) The Limits of Prescription; 2. FROM CODE TO PHYSIOLOGIE, 1826-1829; (i) Doxa and Dialogue: Anecdotes, Codes, and the Physiologie; (ii) Prescription and Description in the Physiologie; (iii) A Physiology of Literary Illusion; (iv) Types of Reading in the 1829 Physiologie
3. THE FIRST SCÈNES DE LA VIE PRIVÉE, 1829-1830(i) The Physiologie du mariage and the Scènes de la vie privée; (ii) The Scènes de la vie privée and the conte moral; (iii) Scènes, Tableaux, and Le Dernier Chouan; (iv) The Composition of the Scènes de la vie privée; 4. NARRATIVES AND NEWSPAPERS, 1829-1830; (i) El Verdugo, Les Deux Rêves, Un épisode sous la Terreur, Adieu; (ii) Articles, observation de moeurs, and Pen-portraits; (iii) Caricature, Satire, and the Fantastic; (iv) From Newspaper to Narrative; 5. BALZAC AND THE LITERARY REVIEWS, October 1830-August 1831
(I) October 1830-August 1831: A New Form, the Literary Review(ii) Balzac's Stories for the Reviews: L'Élixir de longue vie, L'Enfant maudit, Une passion dans le désert, Le Réquisitionnaire; (iii) Portrait and Enigma: Sarrasine; (iv) Contes historiques and contes artistes: Les Proscrits and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu; (v) The Fantastic, the Real, and the Frame Story; 6. FROM LA PEAU DE CHAGRIN TO THE CONTES DROLATIQUES, 1831-1832; (i) La Peau de chagrin; (ii) The Romans et contes philosophiques; (iii) Renaissance Models and Contemporary Reality in Balzac's Work, 1831-1832
(Iv) The First dixain of Contes drolatiques (1832)7. BALZAC, 'ROI DE LA NOUVELLE': From the Contes bruns to Le Curé de Tours, 1832; (i) Art or Income? The Commercial Background, 1831-1832; (ii) Contes bruns: Une conversation entre onze heures et minuit and Le Grand d'Espagne; La Grande Bretèche; (iii) Fiction and Truth: Le Message and Madame Firmiani; (iv) From La Transaction to Le Colonel Chabert; (v) La Bourse and La Femme de trente ans [I]; (vi) Les Célibataires (F: Le Curé de Tours); 8. ANOTHER DESTINY? From Louis Lambert to Le Père Goriot, September 1832-March 1835
(I) Louis Lambert and Le Médecin de Campagne(ii) Two Types of Tale: La Grenadière and La Femme abandonnée; (iii) Les Marana and the Break with the Revue; (iv) Form and Fragmentation: From Ferragus to the Second Contes drolatiques; (v) Contes drolatiques: secund dixain; (vi) L'Illustre Gaudissart and Un drame au bord de la mer; (vii) Eugénie Grandet; (viii) Le Père Goriot; 9. BUILDING THE CATHEDRAL, 1835-1838; (i) Études de mœurs and Études philosophiques, Introductions; (ii) Melmoth réconcilié and La Fille aux yeux d'or
摘要:Suitable for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction, this text explores the nature of short fiction and how Balzac's novels developed from his stories.
