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Term describing fanciful romantic daydreaming
Bovarysme
is a term derived from
Gustave Flaubert
's
Madame Bovary
(1857), coined by
Jules de Gaultier
in his 1892 essay on Flaubert's novel, "Le Bovarysme, la psychologie dans l’œuvre de Flaubert". It denotes a tendency towards
escapist
daydreaming
in which the dreamer imagines themself to be a hero or heroine in a romance, whilst ignoring the everyday realities of the situation. The eponymous Madame Bovary is an example of this.
[1]
In his essay "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca" (1927),
T. S. Eliot
suggested
Othello
's last great speech as an example: "I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this
bovarysme
, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare."
[2]
The term bovarysme collectif was used by
Arnold van Gennep
(1908) and
Jean Price-Mars
in the 1920s to critique Haitian populations' embrace of French forms and rejection of local (Haitian as African diasporic and indigenous) forms.
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citation needed
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References
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- ^
Baldick, Chris (2008).
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
- ^
Eliot, T.S. (1999).
T.S. Eliot Selected Essays
. London: Faber and Faber. p. 131.
ISBN
0-571-19746-9
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