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Autore: | Finn Michael R |
Titolo: | Proust, the body, and literary form / / Michael R. Finn |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A., : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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. |
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.: | 9910818681103321 |
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