{"product_id":"flauberts-characters-the-language-of-illusion-cambridge-studies-in-french-series-number-8-0521110580","title":"Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 8)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521110580\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knight, Diana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by a number of contemporary critics who claim that character is deliberately undermined in the interests of non-representational writing. Rather, Dr Knight explores the relationship between the contents of Flaubert's stories and his practice as a writer, thereby reinstating the functional value of character in his work. She shows that essential aspects of Flaubert's aesthetic - the opaqueness of language, stupidity, fascination and reverie as the object of art - depend on the psychological make-up of fictional characters: their pathological relationship to language and reality mirrors Flaubert's conception of the readers' stupefied response to his own stylistic effects and to his wilfully naive stories. Flaubert emerges as a representational writer, but one who is supremely self-conscious of the fictional status of his representations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51940690002208,"sku":"NEW0521110580","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/flauberts-characters-the-language-of-illusion-cambridge-studies-in-french-series-number-8-0521110580","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}