num_pages: 392
description: Interested in French writer Flaubert's (1821-80) portrayal of his fictional physical environments, and realizing that there were no full-length studies of his use of symbolism across all his works, Tipper (arts, U. of Leicester) explores his flower symbolism. He incorporates an analysis of the language of flowers as cultural phenomena in 19th-century France, and contends that awareness of that flower culture can enhance the symbolic readings of Flaubert's own privately elaborated flowers of language in his prose fiction. Among the blossoms he finds are irony and Madame Bovary , exoticism in Salammbo , and sickly flowers in Bouvard et Pécuchet . The text is double spaced. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Flower Poetics in the Works of Gustave Flaubert
titlecomplete: Flower Poetics in the Works of Gustave Flaubert (Stdies in French Literature, 63)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr