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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Gustave Flaubert"”.
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Colour symbolism in the works of Gustave Flaubert
… to the study and analysis of colour terms in Flaubert's fiction.The Introduction highlights how Flaubert has come to be regarded as a problematic writer and how much existing work on his colour terms is in some way lacking in clarity. I proceed to fill this gap in Flaubert studies by …
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The Love Ethic in Selected Works of Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence
… explain Lawrence's theory of star equilibrium, Flaubert's fantasy of an ideal, unattainable love and its consequences, and the dichotomy in Tolstoy between his view of physical passion and Christian love of a married couple.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… disorder. The figures examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold
… portrayed the cuckold as a protagonist: Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary, Henry James in The Golden Bowl, and James Joyce in Ulysses. This study compares their portrayal of the cuckold with medieval storytellers' portrayal of him in the fabliau tales. The comparison shows that modern …
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Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing <i>Madame Bovary</i>
<p>This thesis will argue that Gustave Flaubert kills the women in <em>Madame Bovary</em>, all of whom are married and/ or mothers in the novel, in order to overtly represent the impossible conditions of womanhood and domestic life in nineteenth century France. Further, I will expose the ways in …
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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
… to the sometimes furiously unsociable Gustave Flaubert. James laments Flaubert’s obsession with the ‘bêtise’ of other people. This frustration, he argues, was disabling for Flaubert’s creative endeavour. Yet in ‘The Death of the Lion’ and ‘The Velvet Glove’ we discover the Jamesian ‘man …
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… the question of desire and death by focusing on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. It reappraises Emma Bovary’s death as a refusal to die of boredom. Drawing on Lauren Berlant’s approach to desire and Rita Felski’s consideration of female suicide in literature, it reflects on what it means to …