Approaches to teaching Proust's fiction and criticism / edited by Elyane Dezon-Jones and Inge Crosman Wimmers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dezon-Jones, Elyane.

Wimmers, Inge Crosman, 1940-

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Study and teaching.

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Criticism and interpretation.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Proust Now? / Inge Crosman Wimmers xiii

Part 1 Materials / Elyane Dezon-Jones, Inge Crosman Wimmers

Editions

French Editions 3

English Translations 5

Bibliography of Works by Proust 6

The Instructor's Library 9

Aids to Teaching

Audiovisual Material 10

Proust Online 12

Proust at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes / Bernard Brun 13

Genetic Approaches to Proust's Manuscripts / Nathalie Mauriac Dyer 14

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research / Virginie Greene, Caroline Szylowicz 17

Part 2 Approaches

Contexts

Proust: A Man of His Times / William C. Carter 26

The Role of the Dreyfus Affair in the Recherche / Joseph Brami 33

Cataclysm at One Remove: The War in Le Temps retrouve / Edward J. Hughes 38

Proust Art Nouveau? / Francoise Leriche 44

Proust and Painters / Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa 50

Seeing Proust Seeing / Mary Ann Caws 56

"Maintenant, Regardez": Proust in a Postmodern Context / Margaret E. Gray 61

Interpretive Perspectives

Coding and Decoding: Names in the Recherche / Eugene Nicole 66

A Lesson in Reading: From Contre Sainte-Beuve to the Recherche / Pascal A. Ifri 72

In Search of Hidden Impressions / Genevieve Henrot 77

Proust's Esther / Emily Eells 88

Intertextual Pedagogy: Proust and Flaubert / Mireille Naturel 95

Homosexuality in the Recherche / Lawrence R. Schehr 102

Proust and the Cinema / Rebecca Graves 108

Specific Teaching Contexts

Teaching the Recherche through Explication de Texte: Proust's Time-Outs / Roger Shattuck 113

Teaching Proust through "Morceaux Chosis": Peddling Proust / Michele Magill 119

Introducing Proust: The Segmentation of "Combray" / Julie Solomon 123

Proust and Architecture: Reconstructing the Churches of "Combray" / J. Theodore Johnson, Jr. 130

Proust in a Graduate Seminar: Structuring the Proustian Experience / Christie McDonald 135

Proust in a Gender Studies Course: What to Do with Montjouvain? / Brigitte Mahuzier 140

Teaching Proust Comparatively: Proust, Ruskin, and the Visual Arts / Diane R. Leonard 144

Proust in an Interdisciplinary Context: Literature and Music / Jean-Louis Pautrot 151

Proust in a Humanities Course: A Place for the Madeleine / Susan Rava 156.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-[180]) and index.

ISBN:

0873529081

087352909X

OCLC:

52714492