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In this book, Austinargues against the traditional critical view that minimizes Proust's practice of pastiche-the imitation of a writer's style-and that considers it a simple exercise of mastering the predecessor. Instead, this work establishes pastiche as a powerful, ubiquitous practice central to Proust's entire oeuvre.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction
1. Proust in School
French Education and Pastiche
Proust the Schoolboy, or, Pastiche Revisited
The "Pedagogical Scene" in A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
An Apple for Andrée: Pedagogy and Education Reform in Proust's Recherche
2. Parody and Pastiche in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Parody vs. Pastiche
A few examples of nineteenth-century pastiche
3. Why Proust's pastiches are neither parodic, nor a proof of mastery
over the predecessor
Proust's Pastiches
The "Affaire Lemoine" Pastiches
Why Proust Wrote Pastiche (Critical Views of the Last Four Decades)
Self-pastiche
4. What can pastiche do?
Pastiche as Performance
Retroactive literature
Flaubert, à la Proust
Je me suis toujours fait une certaine idée de Balzac...
How to Make Friends With Words (Literature as Socially Performative)
On the "Seriousness" of Pastiche
5. Pastiche as Politically and Economically Performative in the RecherchePerformative styles and imperative politics: Proust's "optatif"
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Proust: Copiest, Pasticheur, or Pierre Menard? A genetic examination of the manuscript.
The politics of media and advertising
6. Proust's Goncourt Pastiche and the Postmodern
Proust Postmodern?
What is Postmodernism? A Theoretical Introduction.
Postmodern Pastiche
From the "first style" to the "neo"
Glimmerings of Postmodern Nostalgia: The Goncourt Pastiche
The End of Influence, the Beginning of Postmodernity
7. Literary Pastiche Since Proust
Proustian Pastiche after Proust
Martin-Chauffier, Maurois, and Modiano, or "Pasticheur pastiché"
OuLiPo: Potential Literature
Right-Wing Pastiche (Vichy and the Collaborationists)Pastiche: Literary Genre, or Mere Moment?
8. Pastiche Proustian, Postmodern, and Purloined in the Cinema, or,
Where's the pastiche in French Film?
Jameson's mode rétro: Filming "the imaginary style of a real past"
Ruiz's Le temps retrouvé
Stan Douglas's "Overture": An adaptation counterexample to heritage pastiche
9. Postmodern Pastiche in the Films of Rohmer and Gans
Rohmer's L'anglaise et le duc: The Eighteenth Century
as You Have Always/Never Seen It
Hutcheon and Jameson on pastiche: the critical potential
of postmodernism
Critical malgré soi: Le pacte des loups
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
James F. Austin is associate professor of French at Connecticut College.
