The Cambridge Companion to Proust
Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editor: Richard Bales, Queen's University Belfast
- Date Published: June 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669610
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The Cambridge Companion to Proust provides a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters and its humor.
Read more- Contributions are provided by acknowledged specialists on one of the most important writers of the twentieth century
- The essays provide scholarly depth of analysis on a broad range of topics
- The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology and bibliography
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"...the panoramic view of approaches that it offers is valuable...the collection will be most useful for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students who have read some Proust and seek a critical overview of the major topics and themes in Prouse scholarship." CHOICE
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- Date Published: June 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669610
- length: 266 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 159 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Richard Bales
1. From Belle Epoque to First World War: the social panorama Cynthia Gamble
2. The vast structure of recollection: from life to literature William C. Carter
3. Ruskin and the cathedral of lost souls Diane R. Leonard
4. The birth and development of A la recherche du temps perdu Marion Schmid
5. Lost and found: the structure of Proust's novel Roger Shattuck
6. Proust's Narrator Brian Rogers
7. The unconscious Jack Jordan
8. The texture of Proust's novel Joshua Landy
9. Proust's human comedy Hollie Markland Harder
10. Proust and social spaces Edward J. Hughes
11. Love, sexuality and friendship Alison Finch
12. Proust and the fine arts Richard Bales
13. Proust and posterity David Ellison
Proust and the art of brevity Malcolm Bowie.
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