Narrative Memory in Flaubert's Works (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: April 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780820450186
Subjects: European - French; General; French Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; 1821-1880; Criticism and interpretation; Flaubert, Gustave,; Memory in literature
Description: "Christophe Ippolito's study of Flaubert's fiction and travel narratives demonstrates how the Flaubertian reader's attitude is reoriented from a plot-centered reading toward a retroactive reading based on the perception of underlying cultural signifiers.

It is argued that by strategically pointing to recurrent symbolic artifacts, character types, intertexts, or tropes, Flaubert's narratives shape a system of representation that is progressively memorized by the reader as a coherent hermeneutic model for the reception of his "oeuvre.""--BOOK JACKET.