UID:
almafu_9959239107802883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-11629-5
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0-511-00507-5
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1-280-16194-9
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0-511-11732-9
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0-511-14941-7
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0-511-30964-3
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0-511-48575-1
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0-511-05163-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in French ; 59
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria.
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Nervous precursors.
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The novel of the neurasthenic.
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Writing and volition.
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Involition's way.
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Neurasthenia: diagnosis and response --
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An anxiety of language.
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Speaking the Other.
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The language hysteria of Sainte-Beuve.
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Voicing Bergotte --
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Transitive writing.
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Correspondence.
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Journalism.
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Literary criticism.
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The pastiche: 'notre voix interieure' --
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Form: from anxiety to play.
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Closure.
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Openness and incompletion.
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Structure as iteration.
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Marcel's voice: the recurring author.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-02754-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-64189-6
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485756
