Proust, the body, and literary form / / Michael R. Finn [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Finn Michael R.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 843/.912
• Soggetto topico: Neuroses in literature; Hysteria in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Proust, the Body & Literary Form
• Titolo autorizzato: Proust, the body, and literary form
• ISBN: 1-107-11629-5; 0-511-00507-5; 1-280-16194-9; 0-511-11732-9; 0-511-14941-7; 0-511-30964-3; 0-511-48575-1; 0-511-05163-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778868703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in French ; ; 59.