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“In his first two novels, Dangling Man and The Victim, he had, as he said, "accepted a Flaubertian standard . . . which, in the end, I found repressive".”
“They taught me, before I discovered Nabokov, about the value of scientific detail in description and word selection, yet they also went extraordinarily afield of the Flaubertian search for the mot juste "right word".”
“(39-40)Of Dick, Freedman says, "Much of the complexity of the style derives from the ironic fine-tuning possible in free indirect discourse, an instrument that Dick can at times play with near-Flaubertian precision" (41).”
“The episode is post-Flaubertian in its impersonal detachment, or, as”
“This retro charm, though, is only part of Installation Sonore; more often they go at things with a Flaubertian instrumental precision.”
“He can expose all the lies Johnson told about his military service, but he does not notice the Flaubertian virtuosity of those accounts.”
“His aesthetic theory is a stimulating mixture of Flaubertian naturalism and neo-Thomism.”
“Tennyson was something of an Imagist at times, presenting his mood or picture with a Flaubertian precision of epithet that even Amy Lowell could not criticise.”
“Philip Larkin, not a man prone to indiscriminate praise, described Armstrong as "an artist of Flaubertian purity and a character of exceptional warmth and goodness".”
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“York celebrities - "I shoplifted Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel/But I didn't get caught like Kari Ferrell" - over plodding, stuttering synth, it's more the work of a Flaubertian flâneur, wandering "up in SoHo" and ingesting the floating memes, than an indie darling desperately groping for notoriety-by-association like so much Pauly Shore made-for-Netflix cuts.”
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Artfully Eponymous Adjectives
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