Proust and the Sense of Time.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kristeva, Julia.

Series:

European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Proust, Marcel.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1993.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, drawing on Proust's notebooks and manuscripts.

Contents:

Proust and the sense of time

Table of Contents

Introduction

Note on the Translation

Preface

Part I: Proust and Time Embodied

1.

Time and Timelessness

Psychic Time as a Space of Reconciliation

Plants and Seeds: The Vocation

2.

The Dead Mother

A Crucial Episode

Love is Anguish, Anguish is the Putting to Death—of Whom?

The Governess: A Daughter and a Mother

Sublimation / Profanation

Accident, Ageing and War

Part II: In Search of Madeleine

Stage 1: Just a ‘Luminous Patch’

Stage 2: The Metamorphosis of the Dead

Stage 3: I have the Luck to Taste a Madeleine

Stage 4: Incest and Silence—the Disappearance of Two Women’s Names

Stage 5: An Exquisite Pleasure Without Origin

Stage 6: Desire and the Visible

Stage 7: A Substitution Quietens the Effervescence—Aunt Léonie in Place of Mamma

Stage 8: Memory is a Cascade of Spatial Metaphors

Part III: Apologia for Metaphor

1. ‘To Draw Forth From the Shadow What I Had Merely Felt’

2. Omnipresent Analogy

Doublet and Transsubstantiation

‘As Long as There is None of That, There is Nothing’

Metamorphic Adventures of the Vinteuil ‘Little Phrase’

Metonymy and the Narrative Framework

In Depth: Surgeons and X-ray Operators

The Essence of the World Crumbles into Images

Part IV: Proust as Philosopher

1. ‘Ideas Come to Us as the Successors to Griefs’

2. Being as Will and Society as Hypnosis

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-231-22153-3

9780231221535

OCLC:

1551397213