Flaubert and the Gift of Speech - Dialogue and Discourse in Four 'Modern' Novels

Klappentext This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue! an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Zusammenfassung This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue! an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Background; 2. Learning dialogue; 3. Madame Bovary; 4. L'Education sentimentale; 5. Bouvard et Pecuchet and the End of Dialogue; Conclusion; Appendix: Dialogue in Flaubert's Correspondence; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stirling Haig
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521111522
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11152-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies