Diana Knight

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Flaubert's Characters: The Language of IllusionHardcover, 30 June 1985

Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion
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Part of Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Part of Series
American Novel (Hardcover)
Print Length
136 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
30 Jun 1985
ISBN-10
052130475X
ISBN-13
9780521304757

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Diana Knight
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
30 June 1985
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.79 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
052130475X
ISBN-13:
9780521304757
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
136
Weight:
235.87 gm

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