Proust, the body and literary form
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書誌事項
Proust, the body and literary form
（Cambridge studies in French, 59）
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : digitally printed 1st pbk. version
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria
- 2. An anxiety of language
- 3. Transitive writing
- 4. Form: from anxiety to play
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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