Proust S Deadline
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Proust S Deadline
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Author : Christine M. Cano
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Proust S Deadline written by Christine M. Cano and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 But the novel’s classic image as a completed work was later shattered by the discovery of unpublished drafts, and the “war of the Prousts” has kept scholars arguing over its definitive form ever since.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.
Palimpsests
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Author : Gärard Genette
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Palimpsests written by Gärard Genette and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible". Originally published in France in 1982, Gerard Genette's PALIMPSESTS examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts on the same document.
Reading In Proust S A La Recherche
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Author : Adam Watt
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-06-18
Reading In Proust S A La Recherche written by Adam Watt and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act of reading as revelatory and potentially traumatic, the book then identifies and examines the interwoven strands of the novel's narrative of reading: showing that scenes where the narrator reads and where others provide 'lessons in reading' are intricately connected within the narrator's ever unfolding considerations of intelligence, sense experience, knowledge, and desire. These acts of reading, often bewildering the narrator with their mix of illuminations, wrong turns and over-determinations, lead us to interrogate our own understanding of the act we accomplish as we read A la recherche. This book emphasizes the complexities and contradictions with which reading (always inescapably an engagement of both mind and body) is riven, and which connect it repeatedly to the experience of involuntary memory. Reading is shown to be frequently fraught with heady instability-'délire'-of a highly revealing sort, from which narrator and readers alike have much to learn. The book's final chapter shows how the narrator's critical energies, turned contemplatively inwards in the Guermantes' library, are subsequently turned outwards for a final interpretive effort-the reading of his now aged acquaintances at the 'Bal de têtes'-in a shift that provides the narrator not only the confidence to begin his work of art, but also the humility to face, undeterred, the approach of death.
Proust S In Search Of Lost Time
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Author : Katherine Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-09
Proust S In Search Of Lost Time written by Katherine Elkins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-09 with Philosophy in literature categories.
"Unlike most fiction writers, Proust was trained in philosophy. In fact, he even considered writing a philosophical treatise instead of the novel we know so well. This hesitation about what form his writing should take still haunts his final choice of a novel, which is both philosophical, and yet, not philosophy. Take your pick of philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, and you can easily find an essay or even a book arguing that this particular philosopher most applies to Proust. But as one plunges into the narrative that he finally wrote, one is struck by the fact that In Search of Lost Time feels nothing like what we often call a philosophical novel, or even, a novel of ideas. Instead, philosophical reflection lies in the shadows of his fictional world, a sort of parallel life that can be found in the underweave"--
Time Regained
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Author : Marcel Proust
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Time Regained written by Marcel Proust and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with categories.
This is the final volume of Proust's In Search Of Lost Time. The book chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature-his past life.
Marcel Proust In Context
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Author : Adam Watt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Marcel Proust In Context written by Adam Watt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.
Marcel Proust
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Author : William C. Carter
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Marcel Proust written by William C. Carter and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. "An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew."-Roger Pearson, "New York Times Book Review" "William C. Carter is Proust's definitive biographer."-Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the "New York Times Book Review""
Discourses Of Mourning In Dante Petrarch And Proust
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Author : Jennifer Rushworth
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-24
Discourses Of Mourning In Dante Petrarch And Proust written by Jennifer Rushworth and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-24 with Literary Collections categories.
This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss. Rushworth explores a variety of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.
Proust S English
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Author : Daniel Karlin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-10-20
Proust S English written by Daniel Karlin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
English is the 'second language' of A la recherche du temps perdu. Although much has been written about Proust's debt to English literature, especially Ruskin, Daniel Karlin is the first critic to focus on his knowledge of the language itself - on vocabulary, idiom, and etymology. He uncovers an 'English world' in Proust's work, a world whose social comedy and artistic values reveal surprising connections to some of the novel's central preoccupations with sexuality and art. Anglomanie- the fashion for all things English - has been as powerful a presence in French culture as hostility to perfide Albion; Proust was both subject to its influence, and a brilliant critic of its excesses. French resistance to imported English words remains fierce to this day; but Proust's attitude to this most contentious aspect of Anglo-French relations was marked by his rejection of concepts of national and racial 'purity', and his profound understanding of the necessary 'impurity' of artistic creation.
Marcel Proust Selected Letters
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Author : Marcel Proust
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Marcel Proust Selected Letters written by Marcel Proust and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Novelists, French categories.