As a young man, Flaubert was well aware of incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class "lip service", which her portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary, and began to despise the mendacity of middle class all the more as he embraced the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. ... She also died at a very young age, leaving Delmare with many debts and a young child to rear. ... While the novel of manners shared and exalted middle class values, Flaubert is deeply ironic and ruthlessly critical of them. ... This glimmer of hope rising in the faint ray...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Name of the Rose Eco involves his readers in the complications of early-fourteenth-century theological and political controversies and philosophical debates over nominalism. ... The Name of the Rose is an early fourteenth-century historical narrative framed by the contemporary author's opening description of the manuscript and Adso's end-of-the-century epilogue. ... The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his r...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ... The middle-class Parsis who inhabit the residential block known as Firozsha Baag come to life in these elev...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ... The middle-class Parsis who inhabit the residential block known as Firozsha Baag come to life in these e...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate