...Spencer Lee-Lenfield Abstract Reexamining Flaubert's use of simile in Madame Bovary yields fresh insights into old, deep questions in the study of realism: depiction of thought, free indirect speech, the relationship between representation and reality. Barthes thought the content of a simile...

..., pp. In this work Laurent Adert examines the problematics of verbal alienation in the work of Gustave Flaubert, Nathalie Sarraute, and Robert Pinget. In Flaubert’s fiction, the commonplace enjoys a central position and appears...

...: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom ( New York : Random House ). Brooks Peter 2008 [2005] Realist Vision ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ). Butler Ronnie 1982 “ Flaubert et la personalité involontaire: La présence flaubertienne dans Madame Bovary ,” Amis de Flaubert...

...). Herschberg Pierrot, Anne 1980 “Problématique du cliché: Sur Flaubert,” Poétique 43 : 334 -45. 1988 Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues de Flaubert (Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille). Herschberg Pierrot, Anne, ed. 1997 Flaubert: Dictionnaire des idées reçues (Paris: Le Livre de Poche...

... on the constructive functions of clichés in different types of literary discourse: romantic writing (Alfred de Musset), realistic prose (Honoré de Balzac and Flaubert), argumen- tative novel (Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus...

... of Argumentation Theory (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum). Eggs, Ekkehard 1994 Grammaire du discours argumentatif (Paris: Kimé). Eggs, Ekkehard, ed. 2002 Topoï,discours, arguments . Zeitschrift für franzözische Sprache und Literatur, No. 32 (Stuttgart: F. Steiner). Flaubert, Gustave 1997 Le...

... and that determine how a work is understood, interpreted, and judged. As an illustration, Jauß (1970 [1967]) refers to the famous scandal that broke out at the time of the prepublication of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in 1857. The subject of Flaubert’s novel, adultery, was not taboo and was in fact quite...

... Amossy has, of course, dealt with the topic before in her books Les discours du cliché (with Elisheva Rosen) and Les idées reçues and in her more recent collection Critique et légitimité du préjugé (with Michel De- lon). Anne Herschberg Pierrot has treated the topic in a study on Gustave Flaubert...

... the imperfect status of the world we live in, though, as well as our own imperfect selves, most of us go on reading. After all, Dante’s, Gustave Flaubert’s, or Anton Chekhov’s warnings against fiction are embedded in works of fiction. They are not just didacticism. It is in the Inferno (canto 30, line...

... of the literary carriage, however, clearly integrates an extremely wide range of symbolic, narrative, and thematic functions, most of which have little or nothing to do with the cultural doxa of the carriage. In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Emma and Léon famously get a horse carriage in front...

... of French literature at the University of Paris-8. Her publications include Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues de Flaubert (1988), Stylistiquedela Tseng 2002.8.27 08:06 580 Poetics Today 23:3 prose (1993), a genetic...

... tendency toward fiction, not this time because of aspirations to be scientific but, rather, because of a confidence in aphilosophical theory. Sartre’s biographies (he wrote three: of Charles Baudelaire, Jean Genet, and Gustave Flaubert) are philosophical in a uniquely literal sense. They were...

... Antoine 1983 La troisième rèpublique des lettres, de Flaubert à Proust ( Paris : Editions du Seuil ). 1987 “Introduction,” in Ruskin 1987 [1904] : 9 – 34 . Cornis-Pope Marcel 1992 Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Post...

...] These Thirteen (London: Chatto and Windus). Grize, Jean-Blaise 1990 Logique et langage (Paris: Ophrys). Herschberg Pierrot, Anne 1988 Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues de Flaubert (Lille:Presses Universitaires de Lille). Maingueneau, Dominique 1991 L'Analyse du Discours (Paris: Hachette...

... et al. (viciousness of the marginal): Flaubert, Goncourts, Zola (b) critique of Hugo et al. (perennial imperfection): Austen (c) critique of Scott et al. (perennial lack of agency): Stendhal, Thackeray SYNTHESIS (MODERATE IDEALISM...

... Flaubert, it lingers on the first phrase of Arthur Rimbaud’s ‘‘Une saison en enfer so as to consider what, in respect of a textual unit, ‘‘to have style’’ means. Chapter  focuses on the study of a poem by René Char, ‘‘Sur le...

... ). Flaubert Gustave 1999 [1857] Madame Bovary ( Paris : Librarie Générale Français ). Flaubert Gustave 2003 Madame Bovary , Translated by Wall Geoffrey ( London : Penguin ). Fludernik Monika 1993 The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic...

... on the idea of imitation are unable to make sense of the individual characters portrayed in works of fiction. Consider a set of such characters: Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, and Rodolphe Boulanger, from Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. These characters can be said to be a result of imitation in two ways...

...? Who still thinks Stendhal is a realist? Or Flaubert? Or even Balzac? The main problem with this book, despite its carefully wrought and painstaking analyses, is that its programmatic approach of separating Blan...

...: An Introduction ( London : Routledge ). Todorov Tzvetan . 1975 The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre ( New York : Cornell University Press ). Troscianko Emily T. 2012 “ The Cognitive Realism of Memory in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary ,” Modern Language Review 107...