Proust, photography and the time of life : Ravaisson, Bergson and Simmel / Suzanne Guerlac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guerlac, Suzanne, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Time in literature.

Memory in literature.

Photography in literature.

Aesthetics.

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

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Aesthetics.

À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel).

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"In her new book, Suzanne Guerlac interrogates standard interpretations of Remembrance of Things Past and argues that Proust does not record the dead time of recollection, but the effervescent time of becoming and the real as it was described Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Georg Simmel. By placing Proust's novel within a web of money and contemporary popular culture like commercial photography, pornography, the regulation of prostitution and the Dreyfus Affair, Guerlac reveals that Proust's motivation was not the recuperation of lost time, but the adventure of living in the present moment on an individual and social level"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Grandmother: Habit, Death, and Photography (Attachment and Detachment)

1. The Double Work of Habit

2. Involuntary Memory and Involuntary Forgetting

3. Survival and Annihilation: The Intermittent Photograph

4. Camera Eyes: The Productive Estrangement of Mechanical Vision

5. The Photographer Is a Stranger: Degonflage

pt. Two Albertine Breaks the Frame

6. Albertine Emerges from a Blurry Photograph

7. Making Memories (Desire Is Photographic)

8. Dej'a Vu (Bergson)

9. Memory: Bergson versus Freud (and Walter Benjamin)

10. Art and Life: Improvisation

11. The Time of the Latent Image

12. Memory Is a Photographer

13. Photographic Logics and Genres

14. Breaking the Frame: Writing the Time of Life

15. The Desire to Write: The Time of Writing Never Comes

pt. Three Odette (and Swann): Social Time, Photography, and Money

16. Swann's Gift: Class, Money, and Photography

17. The Facialization of Odette

18. The Logic of the Pose

19. The Social Education of the Face

20. Immortal Youth

21. Money

22. Odette and Swann Are Made for Each Other

23. Social Symptoms: Desire and Money (Simmel and Proust)

24. Money, Truth, and Narrative Form

25. The Two Fables of Proust's Novel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350152229

1350152226

9781350152236

1350152234

OCLC:

1176322531

Publisher Number:

99987720240