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.
| ISBN: | 9780820450186 |
| Publication date: | 26th April 2001 |
| Author: | Christophe Ippolito |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies |