Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints

The Unity of 'Trois contes'

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Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about langauge and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist reading of Un Coeur, an assessment of Saint Julien as Flaubert's attempt to come to terms with his originality as a writer, and an interpretation of Hérodias as an autobiography of the writing process.
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Published online on 21 November 2011
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Cited by three other publications

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Ingram, Amy L.
2003. “La Légende De Saint Julien L'Hospitalier” and the Medieval Quest. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 57:1  pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Keller, Betsy
1997. Rereading Flaubert: Toward a Dialogue between First- and Second-Language Literature Teaching Practices. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 112:1  pp. 56 ff. DOI logo

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Literature & Literary Studies

Romance literature & literary studies

Main BIC Subject

DSB: Literary studies: general

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LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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