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- Title
Balzac's La Femme abandonnée and Typology.
- Authors
Pasco, Allan H.
- Abstract
Considerations of Balzac's reiterated plots or characters are common, though there seems little awareness that they represent an important device that should be termed "types" that the novelist regularly exploited. Balzac's short but magnificent La Femme abandonnée provides an excellent example of typology, whether derived from Balzac's own work and life, Judeo-Christian theology, or Jungian psychology, and variously identified with archetypes like lambs and orphans or classical characters like Werther and Oedipus. Once one recognizes the existence of the "abandoned woman" type, it is difficult to ignore the imposing implications of the title of Balzac's story.
- Subjects
BALZAC, Honore de, 1799-1850; LA femme abandonnee (Book); STORY plots; ARCHETYPE (Psychology) in literature; PERE Goriot (Book : Balzac); LA Comedie Humaine (Book : de Balzac)
- Publication
Romance Notes, 2021, Vol 61, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0035-7995
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rmc.2021.0039