Date of Award
1986
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract
The premise of this thesis is that Balzac has been unjustly dismissed, in contemporary critical studies of fictional dialogue and psycho-narration, for his ostensible clumsiness in describing anything other than superficial communication. The problem is that critics, as well as certain contemporary novelists, have not recognized the fact that Balzac, although pre-dating modern theories of character in fiction, was extremely aware of the fragility, tenuousness, opacity and misunderstanding of interpersonal communication. A close study of his novels refutes the contemporary view.
Extent
55 p.
Recommended Citation
TENNANT, JENNIFER MARY, "DEPTHS BENEATH LANGUAGE: BALZAC'S METHODS OF NARRATING CONSCIOUSNESS (FRANCE)" (1986). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 437.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/437
Identifier
FADT14299
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters