num_pages: 177
description: Using contemporary theories of sociology, Professor Mullen Hohl offers a detailed anlaysis of exoticism in Flaubert's masterpiece. A pervasive schema of multiplicity and mutilation gives the novel its fundamental structure, rather than the previously accepted dichotomy based upon the dialectical oppositon of moon and sun. In this manner, Flaubert created metonymic correspondences, shared identities, and equivalences between certain characters and mythological gods of the ancient Mediterranean world--most importantly Adonis. Language and religion are seen as instruments of obfuscation and ambiguity.
language: English
title: Exoticism in Salammbo: The Languages of Myth, Religion, and War
titlecomplete: Exoticism in Salammbo: The Languages of Myth, Religion, and War
publisher: Summa Pubns