Around Proust

Name: Around Proust
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ISBN: 9780691015088

ISBN-10: 0691015082

ISBN-13: 9780691015088

Edition: 1991

Authors: Richard E. Goodkin

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A study in obsession, Marcel Proust'sA la recherche du temps perduis seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel through highly suggestive readings of the work in its interactions with music, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cinema, and such literary genres as epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. In exploring this fascinating intertextual network, Goodkin reveals some of Proust's less obvious creative sources and considers his influence on later art forms. The artistic and intellectual entities examined in relation to Proust's novel are extremely diverse, coming…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 6/25/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.572



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Proust and Intertextuality



Proust and Home (r): An Avunctilar Intertext



T(r)yptext: Proust, Mallarme, Racine



Representation of Time and Movement



Proust, Bergson, and Zeno, or, How Not to Reach One's End



Fiction and Film: Proust's Vertigo and Hitchcock's Vertigo



Love and Death



Proust and Wagner: The Climb to the Octave Above, or, The Scale of Love (and Death)



Mourning a Melancholic: Proust and Freud on the Death of a Loved One


Notes


Index