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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820185803321

Autore

Paganini-Ambord Maria <1935->

Titolo

Reading Proust : in search of the wolf fish / / Maria Paganini ; translated by Caren Litherland with Kathryn Milun ; foreword by Christie McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8419-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xiii, 265 pages)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; 84

Disciplina

843/.912

Soggetti

French literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Walks along the Méséglise Way; 2. Swann in Love; 3. A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs; 4. Le Temps retrouvé; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reading Proust focuses on the specificity of Proustian writing, revealing the patterns of thought and play of words peculiar to Proust's language, and showing how these metamorphose throughout La Recherche du temps perdu. Her work offers a new model for reading fictional prose, one that replaces the critical ""why?"" with the more practical and productive ""how?""