Novels of Flaubert : : A Study of Themes and Techniques / / Victor H. Brombert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Brombert, Victor H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1987
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert's art in relation to his tragic themes. A voiding undue emphasis on biography, Professor Brombert focuses on the haunting motifs of the novels and analyzes the features which contribute to Flaubert's total vision, while respecting the integrity of each work and discussing each novel in its own terms. The vision of Flaubert emerges, showing his artistic relevance to his time and to our own. Above all, the book brings out the poetic density and beauty of Flaubert's novels: the poetry of loss and constriction, the poetry of subjective time, the tragic poetry of frustration, and the poetry of unconquerable dreams.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Flaubert's Literary Temperament -- 2. Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Dreams -- 3. Salammbô: The Epic of Immobility -- 4. L'Éducation sentimentale: Profanation and the Permanence of Dreams -- 5. La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Debaucheries of the Mind -- 6. La Légende de saint Julien I'Hospitalier: The Sin of Existing -- 7. Un Coeur simple: Tenderness and Irony -- 8. Hérodias -- 9. Bouvard et Pécuchet: The Tragicomedy of Intellect -- 10. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index