{"product_id":"9780521110587","title":"Flaubert's Characters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by a number of contemporary critics who claim that character is deliberately undermined in the interests of non-representational writing. Rather, Dr Knight explores the relationship between the contents of Flaubert's stories and his practice as a writer, thereby reinstating the functional value of character in his work. She shows that essential aspects of Flaubert's aesthetic - the opaqueness of language, stupidity, fascination and reverie as the object of art - depend on the psychological make-up of fictional characters: their pathological relationship to language and reality mirrors Flaubert's conception of the readers' stupefied response to his own stylistic effects and to his wilfully naive stories. Flaubert emerges as a representational writer, but one who is supremely self-conscious of the fictional status of his representations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diana Knight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52773949538622,"sku":"9780521110587","price":1736.62,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9780521110587.jpg?v=1766415173","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780521110587","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}