Authors: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN-13: 9781933499185, ISBN-10: 1933499184
Format: Other Format
Publisher: FonoLibro Inc.
Date Published: May 2007
Edition: Spanish-language Edition
Margaret Mauldon has worked as a translator since 1987. She has translated Zola's L'Assommoir, Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, Huysmans' Against Nature (winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation, 1999), Constant's Adolphe, and Maupassant's Bel-Ami, all for the Oxford World's Classics series. Malcolm Bowie, formerly Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, is now Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. His publications include Proust Among the Stars, which won the prestigious Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2001.
Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her recklessness comes back to haunt her, however, and the strong-willed and independent Emma finds herself in a desperate fight for existence.
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A complex heroine, Emma Bovary has all of Jane Eyre's romantic fervor. Yet Emma deals with ther dissappointments by indulging in extravagances and passions she feels will lift her from her dull life. Among Flaubert's many literary gifts is his ability to draw the reality of his characters without judgement. Porter's clear, mature voice and precise French accent help us identify with Emma's troubled thoughts and rationales.
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Pt. 1 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles: The Complete Text | |
The Complete Text | 19 | |
Pt. 2 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism | |
A Critical History of Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 387 | |
The New Historicism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 405 | |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Hardey's Anthropology of the Novel | 422 | |
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 441 | |
Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction | 462 | |
Deconstruction and Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 484 | |
Echoic Language, Uncertainty, and Freedom in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 506 | |
Reader-Response Criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 521 | |
"Driven Well Home to the Reader's Heart": Tess's Implicated Audience | 537 | |
Cultural Criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 552 | |
The Same and the Different: Standards and Standardization in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 571 | |
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | 591 | |
About the Contributors | 605 |