LEADER 03554nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910452270103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-4631-5 010 $a1-299-19587-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846313 035 $a(CKB)2550000001003146 035 $a(EBL)1131310 035 $a(OCoLC)828869740 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000828420 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000828420 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10842649 035 $a(PQKB)11433545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1131310 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001752748 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43225 035 $a(DE-B1597)453908 035 $a(OCoLC)979579148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846313 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1131310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10661187 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL450837 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001003146 100 $a20120822d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMirages and mad beliefs$b[electronic resource] $eProust the skeptic /$fChristopher Prendergast 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-15520-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tReferences and Abbreviations -- $tChapter One. Mad Belief -- $tChapter Two. Proustian Jokes -- $tChapter Three. Magic -- $tChapter Four. Éblouissement -- $tChapter Five. What's in a Comma? -- $tChapter Six. Walking on Stilts -- $tChapter Seven. Bodies and Ghosts -- $tChapter Eight. The Citizen of the Unknown Homeland -- $tIndex 330 $aMarcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader. 606 $aSkepticism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSkepticism in literature. 676 $a843/.912 700 $aPrendergast$b Christopher$0853273 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452270103321 996 $aMirages and mad beliefs$92478358 997 $aUNINA