03449nam 22006732 450 991077886870332120151005020622.01-107-11629-50-511-00507-51-280-16194-90-511-11732-90-511-14941-70-511-30964-30-511-48575-10-511-05163-8(CKB)111004366731692(EBL)142405(OCoLC)475870308(SSID)ssj0000229756(PQKBManifestationID)11203352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000229756(PQKBWorkID)10190960(PQKB)10852198(UkCbUP)CR9780511485756(MiAaPQ)EBC142405(Au-PeEL)EBL142405(CaPaEBR)ebr10015001(CaONFJC)MIL16194(EXLCZ)9911100436673169220090226d1999|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProust, the body, and literary form /Michael R. Finn[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in French ;59Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02754-3 0-521-64189-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.1.Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria.Nervous precursors.The novel of the neurasthenic.Writing and volition.Involition's way.Neurasthenia: diagnosis and response --2.An anxiety of language.Speaking the Other.The language hysteria of Sainte-Beuve.Voicing Bergotte --3.Transitive writing.Correspondence.Journalism.Literary criticism.The pastiche: 'notre voix interieure' --4.Form: from anxiety to play.Closure.Openness and incompletion.Structure as iteration.Marcel's voice: the recurring author.This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siècle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.Cambridge studies in French ;59.Proust, the Body & Literary FormNeuroses in literatureHysteria in literatureNeuroses in literature.Hysteria in literature.843/.912Finn Michael R.1122117UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910778868703321Proust, the body, and literary form3715321UNINA