Enid Starkie

Enid Mary Starkie CBE (18 August 1897 – 21 April 1970) was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets. She was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer and then Reader in the University. Quotes Proust, who did not greatly admire Flaubert, except perhaps in his narrow sense as a stylist – or perhaps only did not care very much for his work – nevertheless owed him a great deal, without realizing how much. From Flaubert he obtained the art of expressing his characters indirectly, through a monologue interieur. This method of characterization is one of Flaubert's greatest contributions to the art of fiction and, as we have seen in Madame Bovary, it is very different from the direct method of characterization practised by Balzac and Stendhal. Flaubert: The Master (New York: Atheneum, 1971) conclusion Unhurt people are not much good in the world. Quoted in Joanna Richardson, Enid Starkie (London: John Murray, 1973) ch. 18 External links Category:Literary critics Category:Biographers from Ireland Category:Non-fiction authors from Ireland Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:1897 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Women authors from Ireland Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire