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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Main Author: Luca Pietromarchi
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Language:fra
Published: Seminario di filologia francese 2024-11-01
Series:Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rief/13032
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description 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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title Flaubert : la tour d’ivoire pour y mieux voir
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title_full_unstemmed Flaubert : la tour d’ivoire pour y mieux voir
title_short Flaubert : la tour d’ivoire pour y mieux voir
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