Proust and emotion : the importance of affect in A la recherche du temps perdu / / Inge Crosman Wimmers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456317803321
• Autore: Wimmers Inge Crosman <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-281-99649-1; 9786611996499; 1-4426-7886-0
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: University of Toronto Romance Series
• Disciplina: 843.912
• Soggetti: Emotions in literature; Reader-response criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Motivated Reader -- 1. The Narrating Presence -- 2. Separation Anxiety: The drame du coucher -- 3. Separation Anxiety: An Emotional Paradigm -- 4. Separation Anxiety in Love Relationships -- 5. Narrative Identity -- 6. Emblematic Narration -- 7. From Impression to Expression -- 8. Reading Emotions -- Conclusion: Reading Proust in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Proust and Emotion, Inge Crosman Wimmers proposes a new approach to A la recherche du temps perdu that centres on the role of affect. Through close reading of the hero-narrator's personal history, the author shows how emotional paradigms (especially separation anxiety), involuntary memory, and other compelling impressions give focus and structure to Proust's novel. Drawing on reader-oriented and emotion theories, she shows how affect commands the attention of the 'motivated reader' and is crucial to the process of self-understanding for both the narrator and the reader.This is the first extensive study in English to take fully into consideration the drafts (esquisses) published ; in the new Pléiade edition of the novel, the Mauriac edition of Albertine disparue, and material from the unpublished Proust manuscripts - all of which shed further light on the importance of affect in A la recherche. Proust and Emotion will appeal to readers interested in an approach to Proust that combines insights from philosophy, psychology, and literary aesthetics and in a poetics of reading that pays particular attention to emotion.