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Franka i Wiryneja. Madame Bovary inspiracją portretów kobiecych w literaturze wybranych epok

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Pietkiewicz N.

Acta Polono-Ruthenica

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2008

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vol. Tom 1 Nr XIII

349-366

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The article is an attempt of comparative analysis of two works, based on the Flaubert’smasterpiece, and which belong to the two different circles of culture: Polish and Russian-Soviet. Firstof this literary productions - is Eliza Orzeshkova’s Cham (1887), where life of fisherman’s wife - Franca is described, and the second - Lidya Seyfullina’s Viryneya (1924). These works, although written in different epochs, countries, and political realities, are taking up the dialogue with Flaubert’s novel. Some references are visible in such literary tricks as e.g: technique of the leading heroine’s presentation, her external image, (compared with her character) or in the vision of local community, which is establishing authority over the heroin’s way of living. Through the heroine’s character authors are showing a two different variants of socio-psychological phenomenon, so called: „bovarisme”. In the Orzheshkova’s novel there is a first variant of „bovarisme” - „conservative bovarisme” (alias „bovarisme of pauperization”). The point of this variant is that the pauperized persons are compensating their poor situation by the way of glorification his (her) social roots and believing in temporary character of social degradation. The second more optimistic variant, which has been shown in Seyfullina’s work, is connected with cutting out from somebody’s roots to reach out a better social and economical situation. These two selected works are underlying a difference between thesetwo attitudes and at the same time - they are showing a similarity in method of presentation theliterary images of the heroine. They are also confirming universal character of „bovarisme”, which in this aspect is occuring in the literature regarded to such social leitmotives as „vertical mobility” and methods of social advancement of stated social groups and individuals.

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Flaubert’s Provocation

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Culler J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

55-70

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Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all that mattered, and disrupted novelistic technique, in ways that critics and writers have found exemplary, treating this as the novel novelists cannot overlook; yet for readers Madame Bovary is not a “book about nothing” but provides a searing portrait of provincial life and of the condition of women. The vividness and complexity of the character Flaubert created here made Emma a type: a sufferer of “Bovarysme.” Flaubert’s revolutionary notion that a trivial subject was as good as a noble subject for a serious novel was taken to be connected to the democratic notion that every human subject is as worthy as another and allowed to have desires. Yet, while promoting Emma as a valid subject of literature, equal to others, Flaubert writes against the attempt to democratize art, to make it enter every life, and renders trivial the manifestations of this subject’s desires, while making her an exemplary figure.

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Flaubert’s Provocation

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Culler J.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2017

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issue 7

55-70

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Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all that mattered, and disrupted novelistic technique, in ways that critics and writers have found exemplary, treating this as the novel novelists cannot overlook; yet for readers Madame Bovary is not a “book about nothing” but provides a searing portrait of provincial life and of the condition of women. The vividness and complexity of the character Flaubert created here made Emma a type: a sufferer of “Bovarysme.” Flaubert’s revolutionary notion that a trivial subject was as good as a noble subject for a serious novel was taken to be connected to the democratic notion that every human subject is as worthy as another and allowed to have desires. Yet, while promoting Emma as a valid subject of literature, equal to others, Flaubert writes against the attempt to democratize art, to make it enter every life, and renders trivial the manifestations of this subject’s desires, while making her an exemplary figure.

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Cécile – starsza siostra Effi Briest

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Pacholski J.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2018

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vol. 49

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issue 3

219-238

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This paper deals with Theodor Fontane’s novel Cecile published in 1886. This novel is the first part of the unofficial trilogy of the so-called Berlin novels, which also include Irrungen, Wirrungen (Trials and Tribulations, On Tangled Paths) and Stine. Among these three novels, Cecile is the only one which has not been translated into Polish. In each of these novels, the central motif is misalliance, which in two cases (Cecile and Stine) leads to a tragic end. The motif of a duel, in turn, in which the husband kills the lover or the admirer of the heroine links Cecile to Effi Briest – the most famous of Theodor Fontane’s works. This article attempts to interpret the novel in the context of the similarities between Cecile and Emma Bovary, the protagonist of the masterpiece by Gustave Flaubert and from the perspective of bovarysme –a term coined by Jules de Gaultier. In the analysis, what is important is not only the characterization of Cecile as a character but also the discussion of the role of a letter in the plot of the novel, a letter being a motif used by Fontane in an interesting and surprising way.

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Lire un classique : temporalité, (dé)plaisirs et résonance de l’œuvre littéraire

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Marpeau A.-C.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue Special Issue

228-243

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A doxa of the literary institution consists in associating the reading of a classic to a timeless and universal pleasure. But this conception clashes with the real experience of reading a classic text, whose framework, most often school and university, implies a reading framed in time and in its finalities. Based on the results of a research conducted among high school students who read Madame Bovary as part of the literary section curriculum (baccalauréat littéraire), the article therefore examines the forms of pleasure and displeasure that reading a classic takes on today, in relation to the temporal framework that is specific to it.

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Franka i Wiryneja. Madame Bovary inspiracją portretów kobiecych w literaturze wybranych epok

Flaubert’s Provocation

Flaubert’s Provocation

Cécile – starsza siostra Effi Briest

Lire un classique : temporalité, (dé)plaisirs et résonance de l’œuvre littéraire