Jonathan Culler
Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty. 
Cornell University Press, 1985. Cornell Paperbacks. Revised edition, with a new afterword by the author. 0801493056 270 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"Discussing Flaubert's early novels in sequence, Culler isolates and identifies in them the themes of the later novels. He then treats at length the mature works -- not discreetly or in chronological order, but together -- to create a proper context for reading. Following an analysis of two unifying Flaubertian concepts -- stupidity and irony -- Culler concludes by exploring the reasons Flaubert still interests and rewards modern readers."