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Madame Bovary
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The Originality of Madame Bovary by Alan RaittISBN: 9783906768441
Publication Date: 2002-09-11
The aim of this study is to assess in what ways Madame Bovary constitutes a radically new departure in the history of the novel. After tracing the circuitous route by which Flaubert came to start work on Madame Bovary when he was almost thirty, the book analyses the innovatory features of the work, namely its subject-matter, its narrative techniques, its style and language, and its narratorial perspectives. The study then shows how everything in the novel is suffused with a very modern irony.
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Flaubert and Don Quijote: The Influence of Cervantes on Madame Bovary by Soledad FoxISBN: 9781845193973
Publication Date: 2010-10-08
This book tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel Madame Bovary. It thus fills a major gap in the history of the novel and explores, for the first time, just what Flaubert meant when he said, while writing Bovary, "Je retrouve toutes mes origins dans le livre que je savais par coeur avant de savoir lire, Don Quichotte."
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Madame Bovary at the Movies: Adaptation, Ideology, Context by Mary Donaldson-EvansISBN: 9789401206648
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
As the first book-length examination of the Madame Bovary adaptations, this volume, in addition to its pedagogical applications, will be a useful reference for scholars of literature and film and for those interested in the burgeoning field of adaptation studies. Madame Bovary at the Movies avoids value judgments based on the notion of fidelity to the novel. In-depth analyses are reserved for the studio films of Renoir, Minnelli and Chabrol and the small-screen adaptation of Fywell.
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Importing Madame Bovary: The Politics of Adultery by E. AmannISBN: 9780312376147
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
After its succès de scandale in France in 1856, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was widely adapted, sometimes so closely they were dismissed as plagiarism yet they achieved canonical status in their national traditions. This study traces Madame Bovary's journey abroad and asks why the novel was given such import in foreign literatures.
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Searching for Emma: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Dacia MarainiISBN: 9780226504308
Publication Date: 1998-02-28
As Dacia Maraini argues, Madame Bovary is one of the most problematic, though fascinating, female protagonists in modern literature. In this lively, learned, and very personal study, Maraini explores the profound and contradictory relationship between the writer Flaubert and the character his readers have grown to love. Maraini argues that in their desire to claim Emma Bovary as a standard-bearer of revolt, women have often overlooked the way in which Flaubert evokes Emma's insignificance and vulgarity.
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Emma Bovary by Harold Bloom (Editor)ISBN: 9780791009352
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Frank D. McConnell discusses Madame Bovary in conjunction with Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas, while Margaret Lowe suggestively compares Emma with Psyche and other mythic figures. These and other varied approaches reveal the multifaceted nature of Emma Bovary, one of the richest characters in one of the greatest novels in Western Literature.
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Flaubert: Madame Bovary by Stephen C. HeathISBN: 9780521314831
Publication Date: 1992-04-09
Stephen Heath shows how Madame Bovary captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the post-romantic, commercial-industrial, emotional-democratic period. He explains how Madame Bovary represents Flaubert's intense personal engagement with the tragedy of bourgeois culture, while at the same time exemplyfying the author's commitment to the impersonality of art and the transcendence of style. The novel is set in its literary and historical context and there is a guide to further reading.
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