Flaubert's Characters
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This 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.
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