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

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 o...

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