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1 online resource. |
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Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature |
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Understanding modern European and Latin American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Life and career -- What Proust published before In search of lost time -- What Proust did not publish -- Swann's way: intimations of paradise and paradise lost -- Within a budding grove and the Guermantes way: intimations of the fall -- Sodom and Gomorrah, the captive, and the fugitive: intimations of Hell -- Time regained: intimations of the resurrection. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proustâ€"! development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proustâ€"! major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative. In his introduction Allen Thiher outlines Proust's development in the context of the political and artistic life of the Third Republic, arguing that everything Proust wrote before In Search of Lost Time was an experiment in sorting out whether he wanted to be a writer of critical theory or of fiction. Ultimately, Thiher observes, all these experiments had a role in the elaboration of the novel. Proust became both theorist and fiction writer by creating a bildungsroman narrating a writer's education. What is perhaps most original about Thiherâ€"! interpretation, however, is his demonstration that Proust removed his aged narrator from the novelâ€"! temporal flow to achieve a kind of fictional transcendence. Proust never situates his narrator in historical time, which allows him to demonstrate concretely what he sees as the function of art: the truth of the absolute particular removed from timeâ€"! determinations. The artist that the narrator hopes to become at the end of the novel must pursue his own individual truthsâ€"those in fact that the novel has narrated, for him and the reader, up to the novelâ€"! conclusion. Written in a language accessible to upper-level undergraduates as well as literate general readers, Understanding Marcel Proust simultaneously addresses a scholarly public aware of the critical arguments that Proust's work has generated. Thiher's study should make Proust's In Search of Lost Time more widely accessible by explicating its structure and themes. |
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. (OCoLC)fst00031804
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Thiher, Allen, 1941- Understanding Marcel Proust. Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, 2013 9781611172553 (DLC) 2013005008 (OCoLC)826899670 |
| ISBN |
9781611172560 (electronic bk.) |
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161117256X (electronic bk.) |
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1299774598 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299774599 (electronic bk.) |
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