Brombert shows how a text works—its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words—and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism—wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic—that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves.
Brombert shows how a text works—its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words—and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism—wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic—that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves.
The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert
226
The Hidden Reader: Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert
226Hardcover(Reprint 2013)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674731554 |
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| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/19/2014 |
| Edition description: | Reprint 2013 |
| Pages: | 226 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |