...Jonathan Arac To understand and evaluate Emily Dickinson's poetry forces criticism to reflect on issues of length, for which Aristotle and Edgar Allan Poe are two of the major theoretical resources, with further citation from Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert. Giuseppe Ungaretti's extraordinarily...

... Donato during the 1978 Binghamton symposium, Gustave Flaubert wrote in critical dialogue with the politically empowered sweep of scientific knowl- edge that was changing the world in the nineteenth century, even though that power enabled him to travel in Egypt: “It is against this . . . recupera...

... in Cassin’s dictio- nary, Arthur Rimbaud’s “The Drunken Boat,” Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi’s Requiem: A Hallucination, Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, and finally the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s concept...

..., and artifacts alike. What follows is a case study of the effects that his version of the ‘‘unmasking turn of mind’’ had upon his critique of literary criticism and his explanation of literary texts such as Gustave Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale and Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘‘La Musique et les lettres...

.... This is also why, though in his own terms, Gustave Flaubert was so fascinated and repelled by them. Hence the interest in his extraordinary project, The Dictionary of Received Ideas, for any rhetorician. What else was Roland...

... Mandela. Jean-­Paul Sartre explained how Gustave became Flaubert because of his early identification as “the idiot in the family,” but it took him three volumes and thousands of pages, and he still left the job unfinished. Most accounts of the great figures of history focus on their sense of self...

... of the ‘Real.’ London : Palgrave Macmillan . ———. 2013 . Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France . London : Bloomsbury . Flaubert Gustave . 1964 . A Sentimental Education . Translated by Baldick Robert . London : Penguin . François...

.... A similar mode of representation dominates, for example, Thomas Hardy’s fiction, but it lacks the critique of the imperial project, along with an almost pious regard for it, that we find in Conrad. However, Conrad is the most important, even more so than Gustave Flaubert, of a number of novelists whose...

... to translate into the kind of autonomy they were concerned with (an idea that runs from Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert to Franz Kafka and John Dos Passos Marshall Berman similarly refers to the historical experi- ence of modernity as a “dialectics of modernism and modernization the latter...

... elite in America? Would the disappearance of the conditions that made it possible for critics to emerge in the era of the WASP mean there would be no more critics of the sort bred by the European and American bourgeoisie, like Gustave Flaubert, Henry Adams, Walter Benjamin, William Empson...

... practical activity, translates directly into an art of form. A corollary of the subjective freedom of self- determination, the free- dom of form asserts itself, first, in an audacity to take on any content: sac- rilege, pornography, pathology, horror, the ugly, but also, as with Gustave Flaubert...

... of Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet, as described by Peter Brooks, move “like locusts across the pastures of knowledge,” but paradoxically, all that effort of devouring and regurgitation “works a kind of process of designification upon the world.”20 19. Virginia Woolf, The Letters...

... or formal structures, written on every continent, referring back to the same few models—Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Tolstoy—and less attentive to local content than you might think. Another way to make this point would be to say, as Moretti has, that the realist novel...

... and copies while doing so. They reproduce like Bouvard and Pécuchet and as Gustave Flau- bert himself will also do—Flaubert who, by his own account, devours and recopies in the library three thousand books in order to write his novel- istic introduction to the Dictionary of Received Ideas, some years...