Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot
Editor(s): Michal Peled Ginsburg
Pages: xi & 203 pp.
Published: 2001
ISBN: 9780873527606 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527590 (hardcover)
"The volume is extraordinarily well-conceived and scrupulously organized. The editor has done an excellent job of recruiting well-known, respected scholars and of integrating them into a framework that addresses an audience of instructors from a wide range of fields in the humanities."
Kevin McLaughlin, author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Old Goriot is not only the most read of Balzac's works but also one of the most commonly taught of all French novels. This collection of essays, as the editor says, offers "fresh interpretations that reflect on and revise the critical tradition." It thus conveys a sense of what Balzac's realist novel may mean to students and teachers more than a hudred and fifty years after its first publication.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot
Part 1: Materials
- Editions and Translations
- French Editions
- English Editions
Courses and Teaching
Background Reading
Audiovisual Materials
Père Goriot's Paris: An Annotated Map
Part 2: Approaches
Introduction
Contexts
Le Père Goriot and La Comédie humaine: From Text to Macrotext
Eric Le Calvez
Narrate or Educate: Le Père Goriot and the Realist Bildungsroman
Claudia Brodsky Lacour
Fathers and Sons in Old Goriot: The Symbolic Dimension of Balzac's Realism
Ruth Amossy
Balzacorama: Mass Culture in Old Goriot
Dean de la Motte
Reading Social and Historical Space in Le Père Goriot's Descriptions
James H. Reid
Moral Complexity in Le Père Goriot: Balzac between Kant and Nietzsche
David R. Ellison
Balzac and the Modern City: Mapping Paris in Old Goriot
David F. Bell
Theoretical Approaches
A Narratological Approach: The Narrator in Le Père Goriot
Gerald Prince
A Feminist Approach: Realism and Its Others: Reading Bodies in Balzac's Le Père Goriot and Girardin's La Canne de M. de Balzac
Margaret Waller
Between Bodies and Texts: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Le Père Goriot
Dorothy Kelly
A Queer Theory Approach: Gender and Genre in Old Goriot
Lawrence R. Schehr
Kinship, Economics, and Queer Sexuality in Balzac's Old Goriot
Michael Lucey
A Thematic Approach: Seeing to Learn, Learning to See: Rastignac's Visual Education
John T. Booker
The Question of Style in Old Goriot
Eric Bordas
Specific Courses
Teaching Old Goriot in a Course on French Culture: Balzac's Myth of Paris Revisited
Catherine Nesci
Nuance in the Novel: Teaching Le Père Goriot in the Context of a Course on French or World Literature
Laurence M. Porter
You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover: Teaching Le Père Goriot and Modernism
Janet Beizer
Teaching Old Goriot across the Disciplines: Mapping Social and Urban Space
Sharon Marcus and Vanessa Schwartz
Works Cited
Index of Other Works by Balzac
Index of Names
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