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FLAUBERT'S "MYSTERY PLAY": A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MADAME BOVARY

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From: Renascence
Date: 20050101
Author:Rogers, Peter S

THE object of mystery plays was religious. Gustave Flaubert, it is often thought, was rather removed from any interest in religion and was, if anything, somewhat cynical about it. Studies have nevertheless demonstrated the rich resource that religion offered him for the composition of many of his works.1 In his correspondence he noted how dogma served to express human feeling. For instance, concerning the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, he stated that the Catholic Church was right to affirm it since such a dogma "sums up the emotional life of the nineteenth century" ...

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