Narrative Memory in Flaubert's Works
Author: Christophe Ippolito
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.»