A Reading of Proust
Author: Wallace Fowlie
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 330
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Author: Wallace Fowlie
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0141963395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author: Adam Watt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0191570265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act of reading as revelatory and potentially traumatic, the book then identifies and examines the interwoven strands of the novel's narrative of reading: showing that scenes where the narrator reads and where others provide 'lessons in reading' are intricately connected within the narrator's ever unfolding considerations of intelligence, sense experience, knowledge, and desire. These acts of reading, often bewildering the narrator with their mix of illuminations, wrong turns and over-determinations, lead us to interrogate our own understanding of the act we accomplish as we read A la recherche. This book emphasizes the complexities and contradictions with which reading (always inescapably an engagement of both mind and body) is riven, and which connect it repeatedly to the experience of involuntary memory. Reading is shown to be frequently fraught with heady instability-'délire'-of a highly revealing sort, from which narrator and readers alike have much to learn. The book's final chapter shows how the narrator's critical energies, turned contemplatively inwards in the Guermantes' library, are subsequently turned outwards for a final interpretive effort-the reading of his now aged acquaintances at the 'Bal de têtes'-in a shift that provides the narrator not only the confidence to begin his work of art, but also the humility to face, undeterred, the approach of death.
Author: Maria Paganini-Ambord
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781452902074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Ellison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0521895774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.
Author: Wallace Fowlie
Publisher:
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226258867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phillip Bailey
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781883479152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-07
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1139500236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804728089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Mottled Screen, the author challenges the view that literary texts cannot be examined by words alone, arguing that images also play a role in the interpretation process.
Author: Patrick Alexander
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-09-22
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0307475603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.