SOURCE: Mileham, James W. “Desert, Desire, Dezesperance: Space and Play in Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 31, nos. 3 & 4 (spring-summer 2003): 210-25.
In the following essay, Mileham discusses the metaphor of movement through space in La Duchesse de Langeais, arguing that the spatial dynamics are represented in two modes: games and rituals.
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