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| Name: |
Gustave Flaubert | | Birth Date: |
December 21, 1821 | | Death Date: |
May 8, 1880 | | Place of Birth: |
Rouen, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, author |
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Biography of Gustave Flaubert
18,336 words, approx. 61 pages
 The enduring literary fame of Gustave Flaubert was established all at one go, in the course of a famous trial that simultaneously brought him success and scandal. In 1857, when Madame Bovary (translated 1881) was appearing in serial form, the imperial...
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Biography of Gustave Flaubert
1,892 words, approx. 6 pages
 The French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was one of the most important forces in creating the modern novel as a conscious art form and in launching, much against his will, the realistic school in France. Gustave Flaubert was born on Dec. 12,...



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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
4,340 words, approx. 15 pages
 Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French novelist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Madame Bovary (1857) 2 Attributed 3 External links // Sourced One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form. Letter...


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Gustave Flaubert Information
2,052 words, approx. 7 pages
 Gustave Flaubert ([gystav flobɛʁ]) (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous...




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 The Southern Review
Flaubert, love, and photography. (Gustave Flaubert)
03/22/1994: 3,141 words, approx. 11 pages Gustave Flaubert disliked photography because he felt it was a refuge for bad painters who did not want to take the time to learn how to paint. Therefore, there are very few daguerreotypes of Flaubert and so the discovery of a previously unpublished photograph...
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 Monarch Notes
Works of Gustave Flaubert: Introduction
01/01/1963: 4,115 words, approx. 14 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction Note To The Reader: Madame Bovary may not be an easy book to like. If the student reading the novel for the first time finds it somehow cold or unsympathetic, puzzling or "monotonous," he will be in respectable company. Such...
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 AP News
Today in history - June 19
6/19/2007: 595 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Tuesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2007. There are 195 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 19, 1865, Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and...
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 The New York Observer
Winslet Is Suburban Bovary In Field\'d5s Little Children
10/29/2006: 1,776 words, approx. 6 pages Todd Field’s Little Children, from a screenplay by Mr. Field and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel by Mr. Perrotta, is centered on a contemporary suburban Madame Bovary, Sarah Pierce, played with full-bodied grace and gusto by Kate Winslet. Sarah is a housewife who seems...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lewis J. Overaker
14,219 words, approx. 47 pages
 In the following essay, Overaker suggests that in Flaubert's story “Un Coeur simple,” through the character of Félicité and the parrot named Loulou, one is witness “to a serious and triumphant spiritual journey in which the workings of the Holy Ghost are disclosed.”
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Critical Essay by Lisa Lowe
12,697 words, approx. 42 pages
 In the following essay, Lowe discusses "the French tradition of orientalism " and the treatment of "otherness" in Flaubert's works. Lowe argues that "Flaubert's corpus, considered as a series of orien-talist moments, reflects the divided and conflicted nature of nineteenth-century French culture itself.''
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Culler
11,996 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the following excerpt, Culler discusses the function of "stupidity" in Flaubert's themes, symbols, narrative strategies, and characters. Culler connects the idea of stupefaction with Flaubert's notion of the experience of "reverie" and the incomprehensible as the goal of art.


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