UID:
almahu_9949545099702882
Format:
1 online resource (352 p.)
ISBN:
9780226816685
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9783110993899
Content:
Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call language-in-use. Michael Lucey elucidates Proust's approach to language-in-use in a number of ways: principally in relation to linguistic anthropology, but also in relation to speech act theory, and to Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. The book also includes an interlude after each of its chapters that contextualizes Proust's social-scientific practice of novel writing in relation to that of a number of other novelists, earlier and later, and from several different traditions, including Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Nathalie Sarraute, and Rachel Cusk. Lucey is thus able to show how, in the hands of quite different novelists, various aspects of the novel form become instruments of linguistic anthropological analysis. The result introduces a different way of understanding language to literary and cultural critics and explores the consequences of this new understanding for the practice of literary criticism more generally.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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A Note on Citations --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. Proust the Linguistic Anthropologist --
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Interlude: Talk in Balzac and Eliot --
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Chapter 2. Idiotic Speech (Acts?) and the Form of In Search of Lost Time --
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Interlude: Harmonizing Habitus in Woolf --
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Chapter 3. Proust and Bourdieu: Distinction and Form --
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Interlude: Indexical Force in Sarraute and Cusk --
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Conclusion: Animation and Statistics --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993707
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EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993684
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University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
Language:
English
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