Proust's Recherche

Proust's Recherche
Title Proust's Recherche PDF eBook
Author Randolph Splitter
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 206
Release 2023-08-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1003807690

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Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s novel A la recherche du temps perdu from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, showing that Marcel, the central character, like the novel itself, is characterized by an unstable equilibrium of opposing forces, so that he wishes both to dissolve the boundaries between inner and outer worlds, and to maintain divisions and defenses. Instead of trying to force the text into a rigid theoretical structure this reading of Proust’s novel illuminates it by confronting and re-examining the problems that Freudian theory itself addresses. In considering these problems, the author also takes into account the findings of modern French psychoanalysis and literary criticism, referring particularly to the work of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida.

Proust's Lesbianism

Proust's Lesbianism
Title Proust's Lesbianism PDF eBook
Author Elisabeth Ladenson
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 172
Release 1999
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780801435959

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For decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust's fiction--his representation of lesbians. Her challenging new book definitively establishes the centrality of lesbianism as sexual obsession and aesthetic model in Proust's vast novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Traditional readings of the Recherche have dismissed Proust's "Gomorrah"--his term for women who love other women--as a veiled portrayal of the novelist's own homosexuality. More recently, "queer-positive" rereadings have viewed the novel's treatment of female sexuality as ancillary to its accounts of Sodom and its meditations on time and memory. Ladenson instead demonstrates the primacy of lesbianism to the novel, showing that Proust's lesbians are the only characters to achieve a plenitude of reciprocated desire. The example of Sodom, by contrast, is characterized by frustrated longing and self-loathing. She locates the work's paradigm of hermetic relations between women in the self-sufficient bond between the narrator's mother and grandmother. Ladenson traces Proust's depictions of male and female homosexuality from his early work onward, and contextualizes his account of lesbianism in late-nineteenth-century sexology and early twentieth-century thought. A vital contribution to the fields of queer theory and of French literature and culture, Ladenson's book marks a new stage in Proust studies and provides a fascinating chapter in the history of a literary masterpiece's reception.

Murasaki's Genji and Proust's Recherche

Murasaki's Genji and Proust's Recherche
Title Murasaki's Genji and Proust's Recherche PDF eBook
Author Shirley M. Loui
Publisher Lewiston : E. Mellen Press
Pages 276
Release 1991
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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This study discusses the puzzling similarities of perspective, of psychological awareness, and of stylistic methods in these two unquestionably distinct and autonomous works.

A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'

A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'
Title A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' PDF eBook
Author David Ellison
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 229
Release 2010-02-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521895774

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A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
Title The Fugitive PDF eBook
Author Marcel Proust
Publisher Penguin
Pages 383
Release 2021-01-12
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0525505539

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The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth "The greatest literary work of the twentieth century." --The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The sixth and penultimate volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. "Miss Albertine has left!" So begins The Fugitive, the second part of what is often referred to as "the Albertine cycle," or books five and six of In Search of Lost Time. As Marcel struggles to endure Albertine's departure and vanquish his loss, he ends up in an anguished search for the essential truth of the enigmatic fugitive, whose love affairs with other women provoke in him jealousy and a new understanding of sexuality. Eventually, he lets go of Albertine and begins to find himself, discovering his own long-lost inner sources of creativity. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Dear Life

Dear Life
Title Dear Life PDF eBook
Author Maya C. Popa
Publisher Smith/Doorstop Books
Pages 0
Release 2022-01-19
Genre Poetry, Modern
ISBN 9781914914089

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Proust's Self-reader

Proust's Self-reader
Title Proust's Self-reader PDF eBook
Author Phillip Bailey
Publisher Summa Publications, Inc.
Pages 198
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781883479152

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