Proust, the Body and Literary Form

Klappentext Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria'! and its impact on the writing of his great novel. Zusammenfassung This 1999 study examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in late nineteenth-century France! and relates Proust's anxieties about hysteria to his concern about literary form. Finn reveals Proust's novel as deeply concerned with bodily and literary hysteria! his writing technique is one which calls into question the conventions of fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Michael R. Finn, Michael R. (Ryerson Polytechnic University Finn, Finn Michael R.
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027540
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02754-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies