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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780865303321

Autore

Goodkin Richard E

Titolo

Around Proust / / Richard E. Goodkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1991

ISBN

1-4008-0287-3

1-4008-1179-1

1-282-60790-1

9786612607905

1-4008-2059-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Disciplina

843/.912

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM - European

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: PROUST AND INTERTEXTUALITY -- CHAPTER 1. Proust and Home (r): An Avuncular Intertext -- CHAPTER 2. T(r)yptext: Proust, Mallarmé, Racine -- PART II: REPRESENTATION OF TIME AND MOVEMENT -- CHAPTER 3. Proust, Bergson, and Zeno, or, How Not to Reach One's End -- CHAPTER 4. Fiction and Film: Proust's Vertigo and Hitchcock's Vertigo -- PART III: LOVE AND DEATH -- CHAPTER 5. Proust and Wagner: The Climb to the Octave Above, or, The Scale of Love (and Death) -- CHAPTER 6. Mourning a Melancholic: Proust and Freud on the Death of a Loved One -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's (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.