James H. Reid

Proust, Beckett, and Narration

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521141857
• ISBN-10: 0521141850
• Artikelnr.: 29608840

Autorenporträt

James H. Reid is Associate Professor of French Literature at Illinois State University. He is the author of Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel (Cambridge, 1993) and of numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Remembering forgetting: Le drame du coucher
2. Impressions, the instant of artistic consciousness, and history
3. Lying, irony, and power: Proust's deceptive allegories
4. Proust's forgetful ironies
5. Molloy's way: the parody of allegory
6. Moran's way: the forgetful spiral of irony
7. Malone Dies and the impossibility of not saying I
8. The Unnamable: the death of the ironical self and the return of history
Notes
Bibliography
Index.