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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael R. Finn, Michael R. (Ryerson Polytechnic University Finn, Finn Michael R.
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sheringham (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027540
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02754-0
• Pagine: 228
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza