Flaubert and the Gift of Speech: Dialogue and Discourse in Four Modern Novels

by Stirling Haig

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'. Dialogue in Flaubert does not attempt to represent an individual style but to circumscribe a larger phenomenon of language. Speech defines man both in the sense that it describes him as a set of human characteristics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521111528
• ISBN13: 9780521111522
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"