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Thesen, Doreen Faye.

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The function of gift exchange in Stendhal and Balzac.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The function of gift exchange in Stendhal and Balzac./
Author:	Thesen, Doreen Faye.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1996,
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-10, Section: A, page: 3943.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-10A.
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ22156
ISBN:	9780612221567

The function of gift exchange in Stendhal and Balzac.
Thesen, Doreen Faye.

The function of gift exchange in Stendhal and Balzac. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1996 - 301 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-10, Section: A, page: 3943.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 1996.

Twentieth-century French thinkers such as Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard and Alain Caille (a member of the MAUSS group, an acronym for Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales) have launched repeated attacks on economism and proposed the gift as an alternative form of social regulation. In this thesis, a selection of writings by Stendhal and Balzac is studied to see how gift exchange functions in these author's representations of France in the early nineteenth century, a period during which money emerged as a universal social mediator. The gift is studied from two main perspectives: true gift as a means of establishing a positive relationship and gift as a facade masking and facilitating commercial transactions.

ISBN: 9780612221567Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.

The function of gift exchange in Stendhal and Balzac.
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520 $a Chapter 1 discusses what the gift reveals about gender relations in a money-dominated society in which males control wealth. Gifts by, to and of women are studied to provide insight into relations between the sexes and to see if giving is gendered in any way in the works selected. The first part of the second chapter examines the inevitable distribution of wealth and the gift as a vehicle by which to build a cohesive community. The second part of the chapter moves from the formation of bonds in a group situation to the role of the gift as a forger of bonds between two individuals. The function of the gift between those related genealogically is examined, but most of the discussion relates to characters with no genealogical ties and to the potential of the gift to draw them into the same family. Chapter 3 focuses on the question of legitimacy (a major topic of discussion in early nineteenth-century France) and on the gift considered as a form of sacrifice capable of bestowing legitimacy upon a character. The final chapter studies the gifted artist and scientist and their attempts to develop the gift and pass on the fruits of their efforts in the form of a gift.
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