Flaubert : la tour d’ivoire pour y mieux voir
This article proposes to recognize in the figure of the ivory tower, as it appears in Flaubert’s letters, a questioning of the function that Romanticism assigns to it, namely to signify a choice of isolation with regard to the political present and to historical actuality. This model is, it is true,...
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| Language: | fra |
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Seminario di filologia francese
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rief/13032 |
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| Summary: | This article proposes to recognize in the figure of the ivory tower, as it appears in Flaubert’s letters, a questioning of the function that Romanticism assigns to it, namely to signify a choice of isolation with regard to the political present and to historical actuality. This model is, it is true, the object of a continuous evocation, but it never reaches an effective actualization. Another will be its function: the overhanging point of view and the distance that the tower imposes on reality will not serve to erase it, but it will rather allow its wider contemplation. |
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| ISSN: | 2240-7456 |