‘Les Tentations de saint Antoine’ and Flaubert’s Fiction : : A Creative Dynamic / / Mary Neiland.

• Superior document: Faux Titre ; 204
• VerfasserIn: Neiland, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2001.; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Faux Titre ; 204.; Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)

This book reveals the extensive and dynamic interplay between Les Tentations de saint Antoine and the rest of Flaubert’s fiction. Mary Neiland combines two critical approaches, genetic and intertextual criticism, in order to trace the development of selected topoi and figures across the three versions of La Tentation and on through Flaubert’s other major works. Each chapter is devoted to one of these centres of interest, namely, the banquet scene, the cityscape, the crowd, the seductive female and the Devil. Detailed study of these five areas exposes a remarkable intimacy between writings that appear at a far remove from each other. The networks of recurring images located demonstrate for the first time the obsessive nature of Flaubert’s writing practice; the pursuit of these networks across his fictional writings exposes his developing technique; and La Tentation is revealed as both a privileged moment of expression and as a place of auto-reflection. This volume will be of interest to students and specialists of Flaubert as well as to those interested in genetic and intertextual criticism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Mary Neiland -- Acknowledgements / Mary Neiland -- Note on the Manuscripts / Mary Neiland -- Introduction / Mary Neiland -- 1. The Banquet Scene / Mary Neiland -- 2. The Cityscape / Mary Neiland -- 3. The Crowd / Mary Neiland -- 4. The Seductive Female / Mary Neiland -- 5. The Devil / Mary Neiland -- Conclusion / Mary Neiland -- Bibliography / Mary Neiland -- Index / Mary Neiland.