Balzac’s Muse: The Geographical Method

Armine Kotin Mortimer

doi:10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09607-8.p.0155

Balzac’s Muse: The Geographical Method

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The description of geographical locations advances the story and plays a role in characterization, plot, and chronology: the geographical method is one of Balzac’s numerous muses. Delivering reality in fiction, geographical locations affect the semiotics of fiction especially. Geocritical analysis notably takes into consideration the bridge over the Loire as a symbol of Madame de La Baudraye’s passage from one state to another, symbolic geography and the turning point in the novel.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	155-165
Journal	The Balzac Review / Revue Balzac
Volume	2019
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09607-8.p.0155
State	Published - Feb 8 2019

Keywords

Balzac
La Muse du département
geocriticism
realism
semiosis

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