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Aug 27, 2013 · “The Dictionary of Received Ideas” is a complaint against automatic thinking. What galls Flaubert most is the inevitability, given an action, of a certain standard reaction. We could learn from...
Dec 15, 2016 · Books. The Dictionary of Received Ideas. Gustave Flaubert. Bloomsbury USA, Dec 15, 2016 - Humor - 128 pages. A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary...
DICTIONARY OF ACCEPTED IDEAS: Flaubert's Devil's Dictionary, a mildly entertaining frivolity which displays a great deal of irreverence through the affectation of sycophancy. There's "[n]o need to have one single precise notion about it: thunder against."
- Gustave Flaubert
An insightful and playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant in any age. A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, The Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical
Jan 1, 2018 · Gustave Flaubert. Alma Books, Jan 1, 2018 - Literary Collections - 129 pages. 1 Review. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. A spoof...
Description. A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best.
Dec 15, 2016 · A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the clichéd with darkly humorous ...
