Persuasion in the French personal novel

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Persuasion in the French personal novel

studies of Chateaubriand, Constant, Balzac, Nerval, and Fromentin

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This book tackles the manner in which techniques of persuasion inform the substance of major texts written in the Romantic period. After an introduction which reviews aspects of rhetoric germane to such a study, individual chapters detail the way in which they are deployed. In Chateaubriand's Rene, the eponymous hero gears his narrative in such a way as to assure himself of tactical superiority over his listeners.

Constant's Adolphe clothes himself in superficially dazzling language, while the hero of Balzac's Le Lys dans la vallee adopts a more low-key display of epistolary self-justification. In Nerval's Sylvie, the protagonist engages in a program of poetic self-delusion, a procedure which Fromentin's Dominique carries out to a more emphatic degree of willed assertion. The common thread is that all of these texts contain inscribed within their fabric a desire to project private failure as public success.

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Publisher
Summa Publications
Language
English
Pages
155

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-155).

Published in
Birmingham, Ala

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.709
Library of Congress
PQ653 .B35 1997, PQ145.4.P46 B32 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
155 p. ;
Number of pages
155

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1017087M
Internet Archive
persuasioninfren0000bale
ISBN 10
1883479169
LCCN
96070889
OCLC/WorldCat
38864939
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
674868

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