According to Lubbock (1921), what does a reader gain or lose when the viewpoint moves between Emma's mind and an outside view, and how does Flaubert keep the move from showing?
Lubbock says an open shift from a character's experience to the author's detached view is a shock that can make the shared experience 'suddenly unreal'. In his reading Flaubert avoids this by keeping Emma at a distance even while inside her mind, with a perceptible irony and a valuation carried in tone, so the later move to the author's finer mind causes no dislocation. What is gained is the world Emma cannot see (Yonville) and a view of Emma; what is lost is full immersion. Lubbock himself calls the technique 'probably quite unconscious', so this is a critic's account of an effect, not of intent.
Lubbock says an open shift from a character's experience to the author's detached view is a shock that can make the shared experience 'suddenly unreal'. In his reading Flaubert avoids this by keeping Emma at a distance even while inside her mind, with a perceptible irony and a valuation carried in tone, so the later move to the author's finer mind causes no dislocation. What is gained is the world Emma cannot see (Yonville) and a view of Emma; what is lost is full immersion. Lubbock himself calls the technique 'probably quite unconscious', so this is a critic's account of an effect, not of intent.
Curator qualifications: Shift-as-shock claim; Lubbock's reading.
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