The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust

Tom Baldwin

ISBN 10: 3039103237 / ISBN 13: 9783039103232

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Mai 2005, 2005

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 194 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Mai 2005
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3039103237
• ISBN-13: 9783039103232
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 220B x 150 H x 10 T Millimeter Breite: 220 mm, Höhe: 150 mm, Tiefe: 10 mm
• Gewicht: 290 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.