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.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09607-8
EAN:9782406096078
ISSN: 2649-2571
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09607-8.p.0155
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 08-02-2019
Periodicity: Annual
Language: English
Keyword: Balzac, La Muse du département, geocriticism, realism, semiosis
