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The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500236
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 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.

The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521516433
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 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 154 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.

The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

Author : Adam Andrew Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139077231
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust written by Adam Andrew Watt and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date and detailed introduction to Proust's life and work available today, including a volume-by-volume study of Proust's novel.

The Cambridge Companion to Proust

Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826115
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 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 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.

The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

Author : Adam Andrew Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107215887
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust written by Adam Andrew Watt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 141 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"--Provided by publisher.

The Cambridge Companion to Proust

Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669610
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)

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Marcel Proust in Context

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021898
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 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 wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.

A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'

Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895774
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' by : David Ellison

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.

The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

Author : Todd Kontje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176792X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann written by Todd Kontje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.

Roland Barthes: the Proust Variations

Author : Thomas Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789620015
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Roland Barthes: the Proust Variations written by Thomas Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.

Understanding Marcel Proust

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 161117256X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 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 344 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.

The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493897
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists written by Michael Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

Proust and the Arts

Author : Christie McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103363
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Proust and the Arts written by Christie McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

The Fugitive

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505539
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive written by Marcel Proust and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth "The greatest literary work of the twentieth century." --The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The sixth and penultimate volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. "Miss Albertine has left!" So begins The Fugitive, the second part of what is often referred to as "the Albertine cycle," or books five and six of In Search of Lost Time. As Marcel struggles to endure Albertine's departure and vanquish his loss, he ends up in an anguished search for the essential truth of the enigmatic fugitive, whose love affairs with other women provoke in him jealousy and a new understanding of sexuality. Eventually, he lets go of Albertine and begins to find himself, discovering his own long-lost inner sources of creativity. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Marcel Proust

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231326
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Marcel Proust written by Adam Watt and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent fourteen years creating In Search of Lost Time, his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when it was only half in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Over eighty years later, the work still garners extraordinary levels of critical attention, and Proust’s habits, health, and sexual preferences still keep commentators and fans occupied. In this concise biography, Adam Watt explores the life of a writer whose every experience was stored, dissected, and redeployed within a vast fictional work. After considering Proust’s earlier years of personal and aesthetic experiment, Watt provides an engaging account of two intertwined processes taking place against the vibrant backdrop of Belle Époque Paris and World War I: the progress of In Search of Lost Time and the simultaneous decline of its author. He demonstrates how Proust’s own periods of ill health and isolation reflected his narrator’s thoughts on desire, love, and loss, as well as his contemplation of beauty, memory, aging, and the possibility of happiness. Drawing on the author’s immense correspondence, the accounts of his contemporaries, and the insights of recent scholarship, Marcel Proust offers a rewarding new portrait of the novelist once described as “the most complicated man in Paris.”

Cambridge Companion to Proust

Author : Richard Bales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Companion to Proust written by Richard Bales and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Proust aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.

Philosophy As Fiction

Author : Joshua Landy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199731107
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy As Fiction written by Joshua Landy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art--and literary, in that its situations are imaginary and its stylization inescapably prominent, Proust's novel presents us with a conundrum. How should it be read? Can the two discursive structures co-exist, or must philosophy inevitably undermine literature (by sapping the narrative of its vitality) and literature undermine philosophy (by placing its claims in the mouth of an often unreliable narrator)? In the case of Proust at least, the result is greater than the sum of its parts. Not only can a coherent, distinctive philosophical system be extracted from the Recherche, once the narrator's periodic waywardness is taken into account; not only does a powerfully original style pervade its every nook, overtly reinforcing some theories and covertly exemplifying others; but aspects of the philosophy also serve literary ends, contributing more to character than to conceptual framework. What is more, aspects of the aesthetics serve philosophical ends, enabling a reader to engage in an active manner with an alternative art of living. Unlike the "essay" Proust might have written, his novel grants us the opportunity to use it as a practice ground for cooperation among our faculties, for the careful sifting of memories, for the complex procedures involved in self-fashioning, and for the related art of self-deception. It is only because the narrator's insights do not always add up--a weakness, so long as one treats the novel as a straightforward treatise--that it can produce its training effect, a feature that turns out to be its ultimate strength.