Around Proust / Richard E. Goodkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodkin, Richard E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Knowledge and learning.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Physical Description:

x, 162 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Summary:

The artistic and intellectual entities I have chosen to consider in relation to Proust's cycle of novels are extremely diverse in a number of ways: chronologically, culturally, aesthetically, and epistemologically. They come from periods ranging from antiquity (Homer, Zeno of Elea) to the 1950's (Hitchcock). They belong to the cultures of the Greek, French, German, and English-speaking worlds. And they take such diverse forms as epic, lyric, poetry, film, and psychological treatise. And yet in spite of their variety of medium and perspective, my premise is that at some level all of these works and theories interact with Proust's text in similar ways; their interaction can show us something complex and thought-provoking about both Proust's novel and the artistic and nonartistic forms being placed alongside it.

Contents:

Part I Proust and Intertextuality

Chapter 1 Proust and Home (r): An Avunctilar Intertext 17

Chapter 2 T(r)yptext: Proust, Mallarme, Racine 38

Part II Representation of Time and Movement

Chapter 3 Proust, Bergson, and Zeno, or, How Not to Reach One's End 65

Chapter 4 Fiction and Film: Proust's Vertigo and Hitchcock's Vertigo 89

Part III Love and Death

Chapter 5 Proust and Wagner: The Climb to the Octave Above, or, The Scale of Love (and Death) 103

Chapter 6 Mourning a Melancholic: Proust and Freud on the Death of a Loved One 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.

ISBN:

0691068941

0691015082

OCLC:

22858732