UID:
almafu_9958126185302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 260 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-52121-1
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1-139-89092-1
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1-107-50620-4
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1-107-51651-X
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1-107-49646-2
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1-107-50356-6
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1-139-13502-3
Series Statement:
Literature in context
Content:
This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Life and Works:
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Life /
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Correspondence /
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Finding a form: Les Plaisirs et les Jours to Contre Sainte-Beuve /
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Finding a voice: from Ruskin to the pastiches /
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Composition and publication of À la recherche du temps perdu /
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Historical and Cultural Contexts:
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The Arts:
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Proust's reading /
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Decadence and the fin de siècle /
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Paris and the avant-garde /
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The novelistic tradition /
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Philosophy /
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Painting /
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Music /
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Theatre and dance /
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Self and Society:
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Freud and psychoanalysis /
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Sexuality /
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Health and medicine /
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Technology and science /
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Religion /
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Travel /
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Journalism /
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Politics and class /
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The Dreyfus Affair /
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The First World War /
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Critical Reception:
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Critical reception during Proust's lifetime /
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Early critical responses, 1922 to 1950s /
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Mid-twentieth-century views, 1960s to 1980s /
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Late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century responses /
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Modernism /
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Adaptations/afterlives /
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Translations /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-62624-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-02189-8
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135023
