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The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust
Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Other), Baldwin, Tom (Author)

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 ISBN: 3039103237     ISBN-13: 9783039103232
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE: $75.29  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2005
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Literary Criticism | European - French
- Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism
Dewey: 791.436
LCCN: 2005051179
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.59 lbs) 194 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
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 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 'mati re' and 'surface', the author suggests a radical approach to the modernism of la recherche du temps perdu.
 
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