Flaubert's Characters
The Language of Illusion
Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11058-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-11058-7 (ISBN)
This major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by a number of contemporary critics who claim that character is deliberately undermined in the interests of non-representational writing. Rather, Dr Knight explores the relationship between the contents of Flaubert's stories and his practice as a writer, thereby reinstating the functional value of character in his work. She shows that essential aspects of Flaubert's aesthetic - the opaqueness of language, stupidity, fascination and reverie as the object of art - depend on the psychological make-up of fictional characters: their pathological relationship to language and reality mirrors Flaubert's conception of the readers' stupefied response to his own stylistic effects and to his wilfully naive stories. Flaubert emerges as a representational writer, but one who is supremely self-conscious of the fictional status of his representations.
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Character and value; 1. Oriental aesthetics; 2. The merits of inarticulacy; 3. By-passing speech; 4. Endless illusions; 5. Overturning reality; Conclusion: Making madness more mad; Notes; References; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.5.2009 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in French |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 360 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-11058-0 / 0521110580 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-11058-7 / 9780521110587 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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