Roland Barthes : the Proust variations / Thomas Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Thomas, 1977- author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 62.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barthes, Roland--Knowledge and learning.

Barthes, Roland.

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

Proust, Marcel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece <i>À la recherche du temps perdu</i> as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jul 2020).

ISBN:

1-78962-373-1

1-78962-408-8