Around Proust
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Albertine disparue
Allusion
Ambiguity
Aujourd'hui
Aunt
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Awareness
Basic Books
Bourgeoisie
Carlotta (The Phantom of the Opera)
Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
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Clytemnestra
Combray
Conflation
Consummation
Criticism
Cruelty
Decapitation
Digression
Donald Spoto
Emotion
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Evocation
Facsimile
Feeling
Feminism (international relations)
Francis Fukuyama
Genre
Georges Poulet
good-night
Great Disappointment
Haaretz
Hebrews
Henri Bergson
Ideology
Illustration
In Search of Lost Time
Intertextuality
Involuntary memory
Jewish name
Kantianism
Libido
Literature
Lyric poetry
Madeleine (cake)
Marcel Proust
Materialism
Metaphor
Metaphysics
Monsieur
Mourning
Mourning and Melancholia
Music Is
Narration
Narrative
Novel
Parody
Platonism
Poetry
Reality
Richard Wagner
Self-criticism
Sentimentality
Sigmund Freud
Simile
Social novel
Storytelling
Temporality
Theory
Thought
Tristan and Iseult
Zeno's paradoxes
Product details
- ISBN 9780691015088
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A study in obsession, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel through highly suggestive readings of the work in its interactions with music, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cinema, and such literary genres as epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. In exploring this fascinating intertextual network, Goodkin reveals some of Proust's less obvious creative sources and considers his influence on later art forms. The artistic and intellectual entities examined in relation to Proust's novel are extremely diverse, coming from periods ranging from antiquity (Homer, Zeno of Elea) to the 1950s (Hitchcock) and belonging to the cultures of the Greek, French, German, and English-speaking worlds. In spite of this variety of form and perspective, all of these analyses share a common methodology, that of "digressive" reading.
They explore Proust's novel not only in light of such famous passages as those of the madeleine and the good-night kiss, but also on the basis of seemingly small details that ultimately take us, like the novel itself, in unexpected directions.
