Description and Meaning in Three Novels by Gustave Flaubert

This book examines the relationship between description and signification in three novels by Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Salammbô , and L'Education Sentimentale . Contrary to thematic or structuralist criticism, this study demonstrates how Flaubert's images fluctuate between the possibility of a mimetic or symbolic integration into the narrative continuity, and a resistance to interpretation which anticipates the modern self-referential novel. This critical analysis shows how Flaubert's descriptive passages are subject to various possibilities of meaning and non-meaning that disorient the readers by exposing them to ambiguous and unexpected forms of fictional discourse.

About the author

The Author: Corrada Biazzo Curry is an assistant professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She received her Laurea in modern languages and literatures from Università Degli Studi, Catania, Italy in 1983, and her Ph.D. in French and Italian from Louisiana State University in 1989. In addition to publishing numerous articles on modern French and Italian literatures, she co-translated History from Crime (Selected from Quaderni Storici) and has published several collections of poems.

Product details

• Authors: Corrada B. Curry, Corrada Biazzo Curry
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780820431161
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-3116-1
• No. of pages: 197
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures; Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures; Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies