Provides a detailed analysis of intertextual sources from the perspective of the metaphorical re-writings which they undergo in Proust's writing. The author re-evaluates the broader role within the novel of images, which tend to be viewed as isolated rather than as essential parts of a coherent network.
Margaret Topping is Lecturer in French at Cardiff University. She is the author of Proust's Gods (Oxford University Press, 2000) and has published widely on nineteenth-and twentieth-century French literature, particularly Marcel Proust.
