{"title":"Diana Knight","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"flaubert-s-characters-book-diana-knight-9780521110587","title":"Flaubert's Characters","description":"This 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52565264662801,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52565265285393,"sku":"NLS9780521110587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521110587.jpg?v=1760742005"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-diana-knight.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}