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The programme first considers brieflt whether Balzac seems to function in his own right as an art critic, or presents the artist's work as an analogy of his own creative labours.The programme explo...res the contrast Balzac sets up between beautiful women as works of art and the ugly ones as sketches, and the relationship of both to the contemporary world of bourgeois reality, as depicted in Daumier's cartoons.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: A312, The nineteenth century novel and its legacy
Item code: A312; 05
First transmission date: 26-04-1982
Published: 1982
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Duration: 00:24:46
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Producer: Roger Thompson
Contributors: Joss Ackland; John Carthew
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Balzac, Honore; Cousin Bette; Novel writing
Master spool number: HOU3754
Production number: FOUA093K
Videofinder number: 1904
Available to public: no