Dying for time : Proust, Woolf, Nabokov / Martin Hägglund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hägglund, Martin.

Hägglund, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Ada.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

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

Proust, Marcel.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway.

Woolf, Virginia.

Desire in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time-whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hägglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust's Recherche, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov's Ada. Through his readings of literary works, Hägglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction Of Chronolibido

Chapter 1. Memory: Proust

Chapter 2. Trauma: Woolf

Chapter 3. Writing: Nabokov

Chapter 4. Reading: Freud, Lacan, Derrida

Conclusion: Binding Desire

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674070844

0674070844

9780674067844

0674067843

OCLC:

840444832