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The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust

Tom Baldwin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2005
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-323-2 (ISBN)

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This book describes the development of Proust's treatment of material objects from his earliest work Les Plaisirs et les jours to his mature novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It examines the literary influences on Proust's way with objects in the light of certain critical texts and reconsiders the significance of Ruskin. As the movement from unreflective and spontaneous representation to a meta-narrative of consciousness is traced, some questions as to the banality of the 'banal object' arise. The meta-narrative finds resonance in a peculiarly Proustian pictoriality which has been largely unnoticed. It resides in descriptions where objects appear simultaneously or at different times as things in paintings and in the real. By exploring connections between Proust's pictoriality and his reflections on 'matière' and 'surface', the author suggests a radical approach to the modernism of À la recherche du temps perdu.

The Author: Thomas Baldwin studied for a BA in French and German at University College London and for a D.Phil. at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He has published articles on Proust, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Bouveresse.

Contents: Critics and Proust's objects - The literary influences on Proust's way with objects - Proust's taste in objects: from the natural to the man-made - The role of 'simple' objects and pictured objects - The creation of a distance between subject and object - The use of 'material' and 'matter' in À la recherche du temps perdu - The use of 'surface' in À la recherche du temps perdu.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.5.2005
Reihe/Serie	Modern French Identities ; 40
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
Schlagworte	baldwin • Collier • Erzähltechnik • Hardcover, Softcover / Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Les Plaisirs et les jours • marcel • Material • meta-narration • object • Peter • Proust • Proust, Marcel • recherche du temps perdu • Ruskin, John • Work
ISBN-10	3-03910-323-7 / 3039103237
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-323-2 / 9783039103232
Zustand	Neuware