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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 feature



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*1. Flaubert's Literary Temperament, pg. 1*2. Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Dreams, pg. 37*3. Salammbo: The Epic of Immobility, pg. 92*4. L'Education sentimentale: Profanation and the Permanence of Dreams, pg. 125*5. La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Debaucheries of the Mind, pg. 186*6. La Legende de saint Julien I'Hospitalier: The Sin of Existing, pg. 217*7. Un Coeur simple: Tenderness and Irony, pg. 233*8. Herodias, pg. 246*9. Bouvard et Pecuchet: The Tragicomedy of Intellect, pg. 258*10. Epilogue, pg. 282*Bibliography, pg. 291*Index, pg. 299

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691621685, 978-0691621685
      ISBN10: 0691621683

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      Book Synopsis

      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 feature



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*1. Flaubert's Literary Temperament, pg. 1*2. Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Dreams, pg. 37*3. Salammbo: The Epic of Immobility, pg. 92*4. L'Education sentimentale: Profanation and the Permanence of Dreams, pg. 125*5. La Tentation de saint Antoine: The Debaucheries of the Mind, pg. 186*6. La Legende de saint Julien I'Hospitalier: The Sin of Existing, pg. 217*7. Un Coeur simple: Tenderness and Irony, pg. 233*8. Herodias, pg. 246*9. Bouvard et Pecuchet: The Tragicomedy of Intellect, pg. 258*10. Epilogue, pg. 282*Bibliography, pg. 291*Index, pg. 299

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