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	Analysis of Flaubert's Dictionary
		FEUDALISM No need to have any clear idea what it was, but thunder against it.
		The medium through which French ideas have been spread throughout Europe.
		Dictionary of Received Ideas: English analysis bilingual French
	www.robotwisdom.com /flaubert/bouvard/ideas.html (2241 words)

	Analyzing Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The gist of a specific situation; significance: The idea is to finish the project on time and under budget.
		Ideas are often at the central purpose of strategic discourse.
		Convincing someone of the viability of an idea is often the goal of strategic discourse.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~jklumpp/comm401/ideas.html (726 words)

	Dictionary of Received Ideas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dictionary of Received Ideas (in French, La Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues) is a satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, lampooning the cliches endemic to French society under the Second French Empire.
		At the time of Flaubert's death, it was unclear whether he intended to publish the book separately (though he may have been wary of creating a scandal, as he had with his earlier Madame Bovary), or as an appendix to his unfinished novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet.
		In some of his notes, it seems that Flaubert intended the dictionary to be taken as the final creation of the two protagonists of the latter novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas (204 words)

	TEA Winner: Anderson
		Flaubert’s Dictionnaire des idées reçues (Dictionary of Received Ideas) is a highly facetious, often quite amusing dictionary of terms that Flaubert saw as representing the epitome of societal stupidity of his day.
		After reading and discussing a number of choice selections from Flaubert’s dictionary, students are invited to come up with entries of their own, for a modern day "dictionnaire des idées reçues," written in French, of course.
		Students know that a dictionary will be compiled from their best entries and will be distributed to the entire class.
	gsi.berkeley.edu /awards/00_01/anderson.html (509 words)

	The future dictionary of America - Reviews - www.theage.com.au
		The Future Dictionary of America was assembled, during a three-month period, shortly before last year's US Presidential election in which George Bush won a resounding victory.
		This is a future dictionary, we are told, "the sixth edition since 2016" and it grants its contributors a chance to suggest satirically how the prevailing political and linguistic climate of today will be regarded by the chroniclers of a more enlightened future.
		Cracks are made at the expense of virtually anybody to have ever associated with the Bush regime, from cabinet stalwarts such as Ashcroft, Rice, Powell and Cheney to broader enemies of the left such as Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Reviews/The-future-dictionary-of-America/2005/04/15/1113509913569.html?from=moreStories (821 words)

	Power, Seduction and War
		Listen to people in their 60s or 70s; almost every idea they express is some kind of hardened cliché formed in their youth.
		An idea for a new philosophy of living, a new book to work on, a new way of adjusting to the world.
		Postscript: I include this link to a translation of Flaubert's brilliant "Dictionary of Received Ideas," which comes at the end of his equally brilliant novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet.
	www.powerseductionandwar.com /archives/print/an_experiment_i.phtml (1315 words)

	faraday - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Born in 1791, the son of an English flsmith, Faraday received little formal schooling.
		At 14 he was apprenticed to a bookbinder, and it was during this time that he developed an interest in science.
		When James Clerk Maxwell put Faraday's ideas into mathematical form (Faraday knew little mathematics), they became a cornerstone of physics.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/faraday (540 words)

	What's Stupid?
		Ideas and knowledge were no longer tied to time or place.
		Perhaps in recognition of this trend, or more likely in reaction to his provincial neighbors, young Gustave Flaubert first conceived the idea of a dictionary of stupidities when he was only 20.
		The dictionary of received ideas did not take its final shape until Flaubert began his last, unfinished, novel Bouvard and Pécuchet.
	www.coastalsurvey.com /magazine/archive/stupid1.htm (585 words)

	Review: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		It is less a dictionary (those generally have at least a pretence at objectivity) and more a statement of a devastatingly pessimistic personal philosophy that again and again exposes morality as self-interest.
		You might expect such a dim view of human nature to be something of a depressing read, but paradoxically, The Devil's Dictionary, first published in 1911, is supremely cheering and liberating in its relentless negativity and cynicism.
		In its shrugging cynicism, The Devil's Dictionary has something in common with a line of French philosophy stretching from La Rochefoucauld's Maxims of 1665, which put self-interest as the supreme motivation behind human behaviour, to Flaubert's attack on herd thinking, The Dictionary of Received Ideas, to the moral and emotional relativism of Sartre: Preference, n.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bestof2003/story/0,14082,1100991,00.html (700 words)

	A Dictionary of Idiocy by Stephen Bayley and Gustave Flaubert - Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Dictionary of Idiocy by Stephen Bayley and Gustave Flaubert
		Bayley himself appears to back that up in his introduction when he invokes Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas, and claims to be reviving "a neglected phenomenon: what the French call a 'sottissier' and we would call a collection of howlers, or perhaps, platitudes".
		The incoherence would not be important if Bayley had new and vital ideas to offer, but the matter of the articles too often descends into the merely etymological.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article67837.ece (705 words)

	Early Modern Notes » 2004 » November » 20
		In my new role as a contributor to The Dictionary of Received Ideas, I decided to run a Technorati search on the words medieval history.
		These ideas run deep; they’re perhaps a key part of understanding ourselves as ‘modern’.
		Nathanael at Rhine River is trying out a group blog idea that could be really cool: “It will be a group blog that will allow people to crosspost stuff and links that they find elsewhere.
	www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emn/index.php/archives/2004/11/20 (629 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary Days: Books: Ilan Stavans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dictionary Days is the chant of a palm tree swaying in the breeze...
		Samuel Johnson, in his 1755 dictionary of the English language, defined an "essay" as "not a regular and orderly composition." Stavans, in this collection of essays on dictionaries and words, is consistent in his adherence to that definition, if nothing else.
		The author explores the history of dictionaries across languages and cultures, the exclusion of "cacophonous words" (i.e., swear words), the inclusion of cultural biases, and more general thoughts on language and thought.
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-Days-Ilan-Stavans/dp/1555974198 (2136 words)

	Ostrich Ink: SLIDE RULE by Ben Maraniss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As its title implies, the Dictionary is an elegantly observed and alphabetized list of words, juxtaposed with the clichés to which they are most often attached in polite conversation.
		The idea being that images on their own - especially the kind of stock icons and photos in the Auto Content Wizard - always offer the broadest base of interpretation, sound imposes a more definite mood on its listeners, and text defines itself without ambiguity.
		Though, ironically for such a social experience, it is the comfort of isolation at the expense of received ideas, and not the other way around.
	www.ostrichink.com /dec2003/powerpoint.html (1300 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books / Subjects / Education & Languages / Foreign Languages / Russian / Bestsellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million.
		The essential two-in-one reference for the learner of Russian: an up-to-date dictionary and a useful grammar supplement in one handy volume.
		With over 80,000 references and 115,000 translations, this dictionary is designed to give up-to-date coverage in a practical user-friendly format.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13590761 (857 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bouvard and Pecuchet with the Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As such, this is not an uplifting book, and as Flaubert's message is received or appreciated quite early in the book, I felt that it was unnecessary for him to go on reiterating it by the use of further examples.
		The "Dictionary of Received Ideas," which is included in this edition, is sort of a "Devil's Dictionary" of middle-class stupidities; astonishingly, almost all of its satirical bite still holds true.
		Includes a "dictionary of received ideas" which should be required reading for all Americans.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140443207 (648 words)

	CDI Russia Weekly #245
		During the time of Madame Roland's imprisonment, before her death, she wrote to her political friends and allies that they should flee for the United States, "the only refuge of liberty", she said, in the midst of the French Revolution.
		Ninety years later, shortly before his more natural death, Gustave Flaubert defined America in his Dictionary of Received Ideas as the converse of the political romantic.
		All the Moscow think-tanks that have received US funds are servile in their support for Bush, and their criticism of Putin.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/245-9-pr.cfm (1154 words)

	ARTL!ES
		Soliciting artistsï¿½ responses to the idea that ï¿½painting has ceased to be the dominant artistic medium at the moment,ï¿½ a 1975 issue of Artforum opined: ï¿½The debates between its two major ideologies, abstract and representational, have outlived their usefulness.ï¿½
		I think Gilbert-Rolfeï¿½s idea of this bullshit art-criticism is that it serve as a deodorant, preventing us smelling the stink of modernism,ï¿½ by which he meant formalism.
		Their works are not representations of abstract paintingsï¿½as might have been thought in the recent postmodern pastï¿½but inscriptions or illustrations of ideas.
	www.artlies.org /article.php?id=1240&issue=47&s=0 (1760 words)

	Dog Dictionary
		We received a great number of wonderful photos.
		We added pages to this dictionary depending on the photographs we received as well as the popularity of the dog (1 being the most popular up to 5 meaning rare).
		Unfortunately, due to the large number of contributors to this section the owner's name or dog's name was impossible to obtain in some cases.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /dogs/dog_dictionary/dictionary.htm (137 words)

	The Ugly Blogger - Hot Copy #13
		He was so worried about this phenomenon of received ideas that he wrote a dictionary of received ideas.
		We’ve now lost more than 3,000 American lives and many, many more Iraqi lives on the basis of received ideas that would not have stood up to scrutiny if our press and our Congress had done their jobs.
		Saddam Hussein had not sought nuclear materials in Africa for more than a decade, but the received idea, the idea our own Secretary of State, Colin Powell, propounded to the United Nations, was that Saddam had recently sought nuclear materials.
	www.thesop.org /article.php?id=3754 (2391 words)

	kept - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Keep is the most general: We received a few offers but decided to keep the house.
		Retain means to continue to hold, especially in the face of possible loss: Though unhappy, he retained his sense of humor.
		To reserve is to hold back for the future or for a special purpose: The farmer reserved two acres for an orchard.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/kept (1922 words)

	Amazon.com: Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Penguin Classics): Books: Gustave Flaubert,A. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Dictionary of Received Ideas," which is included in this edition, is sort of a "Devil's Dictionary" of middle-class stupidities; astonishingly, almost all of its satirical bite still holds true.
		As such, this is not an uplifting book, and as Flaubert's message is received or appreciated quite early in the book, I felt that it was unnecessary for him to go on reiterating it by the use of further examples.
		Includes a "dictionary of received ideas" which should be required reading for all Americans.
	www.amazon.com /Bouvard-Pecuchet-Dictionary-Accepted-Classics/dp/0140443207 (1614 words)

	Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
		He was always fascinated by a certain kind of accepted wisdom, which shades off into platitudes, cliches, and expressions of sheer stupidity -- what he lovingly described as la betise.
		An updated version of his Dictionary of Received Ideas would have to include several new entries derived from Western policymakers during the Bosnian war: "Balkan people: full of ancient ethnic hatreds.
		More recent events would have added a couple of new entries: "Kosova, autonomy of: must be restored." "Kosova, independence of: dangerous and destabilizing; would lead to new Balkan war." These two received ideas are constantly affirmed by our politicians and diplomats; the moe they are repeated, the less often anyone pauses to question their truth.
	www.frosina.org /articles/default.asp?id=86 (1901 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the author of the "Dictionary of Received Ideas"—the glossary of clichés that Flaubert appended to "Bouvard and Pecuchet," his "encyclopedia of human stupidity" in novel form—would surely have bellowed with joy at the themes listed after his name in Wall's index.
		Wall describes the mistress in question, who was eleven years Flaubert's senior, in the style of the "Dictionary of Received Ideas." Louise Colet: "Socialist-feminist writer.
		A pious utopian (bleeding hearts are a leitmotif of Flaubert biography), Louise objected, Wall writes, to "Flaubert's 'aristocratic ideas' about women," and she complained that his mockery had killed her love.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?020506crbo_books (3539 words)

	christopher robbins blog:
		Patronizing tone, but nice idea, though I have to admit the reason i am excited about it is not because I think it will make some grand difference, but because it looks like a great opportunity to do art for a reason other than selfish self-expression from tiem to time.
		Flaubert's dictionary of Received/Accepted Ideas gives a biting glimpse at the prides and prejudices of the French Bourgeious in the mid-nineteenth century.
		And then there's the Cyberpunk Dictionary and the Skeptic's Dictionary and the Cyberspace Dictionaryand the Buddhist Glossary and the Glossary of Kant's Technical Terms and of course, the Jargon File.
	www.grographics.com /webactivism/2001_12_01_archive.html (3427 words)

	catalogue text by Melanie Gilligan
		Maybe the insurgent idea is a bit much and it should just be an atelier of empty-headed painters that reproduce an image of contemporary painting in as many ways as they can.
		The insurgents imagine their assistants to be better conductors for the vicissitudes of (art world) tastes than themselves; they represent everyday artists and consumers of culture who wouldn't necessarily subscribe to their views.
		The insurgent's claim to consciously construct their labour programme as a meta-commentary on their project as meta-painters; they must regard their work as a reflexive analysis through enactment of power relations between renowned and unknown, as well as boss/worker, i.e.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/MerlinCarpenter/mgtext.htm (2683 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Dickles" to "Dictionnaire"
		"Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, compiled by Mark Bryant and Simon Heneage" / reviewed by Draper Hill ; p.
		"Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas" / illustrated by Rick Geary.
		"Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas" / Rick Geary.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/drri/dickl.htm (3748 words)

	Dictionary of the History of Ideas
		His idea of freedom was inseparable from the
		be established on the ideas of hierarchy and obedience,
		the ideas of the romantics on society and on economics,
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv4-27 (1992 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A entertaining and eccentric A-Z of clichÃ©s and received ideas, from the bestselling author of Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics.
		Spoken and written language is littered with clichÃ©s, but there are some usages - smug statements of secondhand opinion, grating nuggets of folk wisdom, toe-curling verbal flourishes of the would-be authoritative - that go beyond the bounds of clichÃ© to enter more desperate linguistic territory.
		They are disparate in nature - but have one thing in common: they all represent desperate attempts on the part of the speaker to persuade the listener that certainty of language mirrors certainty of thought and intellect, to project a verbal front of decidedness, authority and knowledge.
	www.orionbooks.co.uk /HB-28071/I (343 words)

	In the Agora: Inconsistencies and the Hobgoblins of Small Minds
		The fate of Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" provides one example of a stangled idea.
		The pedants who edited The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy felt compelled to explain the plain fact that Emerson "does not explain the difference between foolish and wise consistency," something evident to anyone who actually reads instead of just dragging his eyes across the page.
		So, acting on the dubious assumptions that the unexamined life is not worth living and that it is better to be Socrates unhappy than a swine contented, I commend Flaubert's little notebook to you, so that you may be mortified--and thereby made repentant of all your received ideas.
	www.intheagora.com /archives/2006/12/inconsistencies.html (367 words)

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