Proust The Body And Literary Form

Author : Michael R. Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521641896
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proust, the Body and Literary Form written by Michael R. Finn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 study examines Proust's involvement with fin-de-siècle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.

Author : Anna Magdalena Elsner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113760073X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning and Creativity in Proust written by Anna Magdalena Elsner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Proust’s answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novel’s final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tribute to those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Proust’s novel captivating for readers since its publication.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110751214X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marcel Proust in Context written by Adam Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

Author : Sarah Tribout-Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351552945
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proust and Joyce in Dialogue written by Sarah Tribout-Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It might reasonably be asked what the connection is between Francoises malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephens interior monologue in Joyce. Tribout-Joseph argues that they are indeed interrelated. Proust and Joyce are exemplary of Modernisms reconciliation of high literature with popular voices. Both writers explore the process of incorporation, the interface between speech and narrative. Fragments of discourse are taken from diverse sources and reoriented within new contexts. Proposed here are interconnected close readings of socio-political debate, body talk, listening processes, silences, intertextual echoes, cliche, register, conflated voices, chatter, gossip, eavesdropping, internalized debate, and misunderstandings which allow for a new configuration of the authors to emerge.

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 161117256X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Marcel Proust written by Allen Thiher and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative. In his introduction Allen Thiher outlines Proust's development in the context of the political and artistic life of the Third Republic, arguing that everything Proust wrote before In Search of Lost Time was an experiment in sorting out whether he wanted to be a writer of critical theory or of fiction. Ultimately, Thiher observes, all these experiments had a role in the elaboration of the novel. Proust became both theorist and fiction writer by creating a bildungsroman narrating a writer's education. What is perhaps most original about Thiher's interpretation, however, is his demonstration that Proust removed his aged narrator from the novel's temporal flow to achieve a kind of fictional transcendence. Proust never situates his narrator in historical time, which allows him to demonstrate concretely what he sees as the function of art: the truth of the absolute particular removed from time's determinations. The artist that the narrator hopes to become at the end of the novel must pursue his own individual truths—those in fact that the novel has narrated, for him and the reader, up to the novel's conclusion. Written in a language accessible to upper-level undergraduates as well as literate general readers, Understanding Marcel Proust simultaneously addresses a scholarly public aware of the critical arguments that Proust's work has generated. Thiher's study should make Proust's In Search of Lost Time more widely accessible by explicating its structure and themes.

Author : Gabrielle Townsend
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039111244
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proust's Imaginary Museum written by Gabrielle Townsend and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Marcel Proust's creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author's dependence on secondary visual sources. Gabrielle Townsend argues that reproductions play a key role in the work's complex, multi-layered structure.

Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669610
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Proust written by Richard Bales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.

Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895774
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' written by David Ellison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500236
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust written by Adam Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.

Author : Christine M. Cano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090721
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proust's Deadline written by Christine M. Cano and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Proust’s multivolume masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, began to appear in 1913. Over the next fifty years, it gained a reputation as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. But the novel’s classic image as a completed work was later shattered by the discovery of unpublished drafts, and the “war of the Prousts” has kept scholars arguing over its definitive form ever since. Christine M. Cano’s Proust’s Deadline presents a concise history of the publishing and reception of À la recherche du temps perdu, and sorts out the most important issues that have arisen from the ensuing debates about the text. She ultimately shows how this quintessential “book about time” tells another story about time’s passage: the story of Proust’s mortal confrontation with the temporality of writing, publishing, and reading.