Proust, the Body and Literary Form

AvMichael R. Finn,Michael Sheringham

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siècle '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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-02
Mått:152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in French
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521027540

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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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