...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...

... a peur de la bêtise?” in Prétexte: Roland Barthes:Colloque de Cerisy , edited by Réda Bensmaïa (Paris:UGE). Genette, Gérard 1969 “Vraisemblance et motivation,” in Figures II , 71 -99 (Paris: Seuil). Herschberg Pierrot, Anne 1980 “Problématique du cliché: Sur Flaubert,” Poétique 43...

... 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...

... franzözische Sprache und Literatur, No. 32 (Stuttgart: F. Steiner). Flaubert, Gustave 1997 Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues, et Le Catalogue des idées chic , edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot (Paris: Le Livre de Poche). Fontanier, Pierre 1977 [1827] Les Figures du discours , introduction...

... a). Dannenberg Hilary P. 2008 Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ). Flaubert Gustave 1951 Oeuvres , vol. 1 , edited by Thibaudet A. Dumesnil R. ( Paris : Gallimard ). Fludernik Monika...

..., 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 and in various...

... for College Students , rev. ed. (New York: Holt). Craig, Cairns 2007 Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). Deleuze, Gilles 1991 “Coldness and Cruelty,” in Masochism , 9 -138 (New York: Zone). Flaubert, Gustave 1951...

... 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 the cathedral in Rouen. They do not tell the coachman where...

... 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...

... 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...

.... For instance, in “The Mystery in Letters” Ste´phane Mallarme´ (2007: 236) laments that his “contemporaries do not know how to read— anything but a newspaper,” and in “A propos du ‘style’ de Flaubert” (“About Flaubert’s ‘Style Proust (1999a [1920]: 327) writes, “We no longer know how to read prose” (my...

...). 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). Molinié, Georges 1992...

...): 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): Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky...

... 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...

...—but there is no obvious way back. And as officers are ordered to fire on peasant protestors, they experience something close to a break in reality. Shabtai, in turn, offers the modern-day Israeli equivalent of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education , a meta-historical novel of political disillusionment in which...

... in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1999 [1857]: 97): “Et Emma cherchait a` savoir ce que l’on entendait au juste dans la vie par les mots de fe´licite´,de passion et d’ivresse, qui lui avaient paru si beaux dans les livres.”13 Conclusion and an Attempt at Synchronization A narratological analysis...

...). Thibaudet, Albert 1951 Introduction to Madame Bovary, in Gustave Flaubert, Oeuvres , vol. 1 , Bibliotheque de la Pléïade, 271 -72 (Paris: Gallimard). Tolstoy, Leo 1960 The Death of Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories , translated by Aylmer Maude (New York:Harper). Walton, Kendall 1990 Mimesis...

...? 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...