Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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- Author: Michael R. Finn, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027540
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This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siècle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.
Read more- Exciting angle on Proust's thinking and writing
- Revealing exploration of late nineteenth-century French medical and psychological texts, in a literary context
- Broad coverage (putting Proust into his literary and cultural context) and accessible style
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'Finn has given us a splendid book.' Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521027540
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.354kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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