All that they saw was the message itself: Textual Calamities in Flaubert and DeMille

Abstract

The paper compares two 19th century novels - G. Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet and J.

DeMille's Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder and addresses their linking issues such as the ironic aspect of textuality.

Keywords

• message
• itself
• Textual
• Calamities
• Flaubert
• DeMille