Flaubertian
- noun
- /floʊˈbɛrtiən/
- Literature
- Many writers today are considered Flaubertian because they focus on detailed character development.
Examples
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As a novelist, it has been my privilege to be a flâneur in the Flaubertian sense, to stroll, stare, explore, and note details of your city and its culture, its past and its present, and perhaps its future, too.
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The reason he gives for embarking on this project is Flaubertian: boredom.
Academic text (1999) -
On the level of the individual novel, as well as on the level of Flaubertian narrative as a whole, it appears that the relationship between elements such as images and figures, and the relationship between their components (rather than these elements in themselves as isolated images, etc.), contribute to form in the mind of the reader an awareness of the narrative's significance.
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This Cervantine (and Flaubertian) technique serves to prevent the reader from becoming exclusively immersed in the text's mimetic plot.
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Wing finds that "the story of the delusions of stories is not outside the delusions it recites" and that "narrative performance," the Flaubertian "solution," consistently raises questions about the authority of narrators" (76).
Academic text (2001) -
And as Flaubert's "loupe" is his means to manipulate and contaminate the hand of God, so Rodolphe's "loupe" is his means to manipulate and contaminate that hand within the Flaubertian world.
Academic text (2001) -
His Flaubertian approach to storytelling emphasizes the subtleties of human emotions and experiences.
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The review described the author's Flaubertian style, highlighting her meticulous attention to language and form.
How Influenced
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flaubertian comes from the name Flaubert and the ending -ian, which means 'a person connected with'. A helpful way to remember it is like Shakespearean: a Flaubertian is a writer who follows Flaubert's careful, realistic way of writing.