In a book, the hermeneutic, proairetic, semic, symbolic, and cultural codes are used to analyze this novella. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this French novella, whose title character creates a clay cast of an opera singer whom he believes to be the ideal woman; the title character attempts to destroy that cast with a hammer before his death.
ANSWER: Sarrasine
[10e] Sarrasine is a part of this French author of Le Père Goriot’s massive series The Human Comedy.
ANSWER: Honoré de Balzac
[10m] This French critic analyzed the meaning of Sarrasine in “The Death of the Author” and later in his book S/Z (“S-slash-Z”). This theorist also analyzed modern myth creation in Mythologies.
ANSWER: Roland Barthes (“bart”)
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