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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The Fairest of Them All: Modes of Vision in Madame Bovary
Beteiligte:
Thornton, Lawrence
Erschienen:
Modern Language Association of America, 1978
Erschienen in:PMLA
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0030-8129
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Beschreibung:
<p>By revealing Emma's subjectivity in descriptive, hallucinatory, and autoscopic modes of vision, Flaubert shows that two false versions of reality dominate her imagination: the marvelous, derived from her reading, and the endoxal, derived from her culture. These modes of vision, which are manifested in a series of mirror images, show Emma incapable of distinguishing between past and present, fantasy and reality, and lead as well to the discovery that her fantasies about all men remain vague and abstract. Emma can only differentiate women in her imagination, and the autoeroticism informing her narcissism finally displaces infidelity as the source of her most erotic experiences. Throughout Madame Bovary, Emma's subjectivity becomes increasingly associated with the fantastic, until she is seen to have completely lost touch with reality.</p>