David Danaher (essay date spring 1992)
SOURCE: Danaher, David. “Effacement of the Author and the Function of Sadism in Salammbô.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures 46, no. 1 (spring 1992): 3-20.
[In the following essay, Danaher presents an analysis of Salammbô based upon the critical concepts of Russian Formalism, explaining Flaubert's use of focalization, the sadistic motif, and his ahistorical application of archeological material to impersonalize himself as the author and to estrange his readers.]
...Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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