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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457807803321

Autore

Israel-Pelletier Aimée

Titolo

Flaubert's straight and suspect saints [[electronic resource] ] : the unity of Trois contes / / Aimée Israel-Pelletier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991

ISBN

1-283-35864-6

9786613358646

90-272-7775-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, , 0165-8743 ; ; v. 36

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

FLAUBERT'S STRAIGHT AND SUSPECT SAINTS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Meaning and Character in Flaubert; 1. The Trois contes; 2. The Women of Pont-l'Evêqueque: A Subversive Sorority; 3. Murdering the Father: Re-writing the Legend of Saint Julien l'Hospitalier; 4. Reading the Landscape of Desire and Writing; Conclusion: Straight and Suspect Texts: A Poetics of Transgression; Notes; Bibliography and Selected Works on Trois contes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about language and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist