What do you think?
Rate this book
The Script of Decadence: Essays on the Fictions of Flaubert and the Poetics of Romanticism
Eugenio Donato was a critic who played a seminal role in teaching Americans how to read post-structural theory. This collection of ten seminal essays is united by the themes of language and mortality. Here he first discusses Flaubert and then explores Romantic poetics. Donato examines the
nature of Flaubert's work and his particularly "constructed" recapturing of history, natural history, and language in the essential isolation of authorship, and elucidates the way mortality circumscribes the act of self-writing. In the second half of the book, these "mortal" concerns and the uses of
history, natural history, and the language of narrative return at various strata of an "archaeology" of Romanticism.
nature of Flaubert's work and his particularly "constructed" recapturing of history, natural history, and language in the essential isolation of authorship, and elucidates the way mortality circumscribes the act of self-writing. In the second half of the book, these "mortal" concerns and the uses of
history, natural history, and the language of narrative return at various strata of an "archaeology" of Romanticism.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
4 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.