Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion - Brossura

Knight, Diana

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ISBN 10: 0521110580 ISBN 13: 9780521110587

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro:

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.

Contenuti:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521110580
• ISBN 13: 9780521110587
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 136