James F. Austin

Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern or Why Style Matters

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Produktbeschreibung

Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern, or Why Style Matters argues against the traditional view that Marcel Proust wrote pastiches, that is, texts that imitate the style of another author, to master his literary predecessors while sharpening his writerly quill. On the contrary, James F. Austin demonstrates that Proust's oeuvre, and In Search of Lost Time in particular, deploy pastiche to other ends: Proust's pastiches, in fact, "do things with words" to create powerful real-world effects. His works are indeed performative acts that forge social relationships, redefine our ideas of literature, and even work against oppressive political and economic discourses. Building on the "speech-act" theory of J.L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, and J. Hillis Miller, and on the postmodern theory of Fredric Jameson, this book not only elucidates the performative nature of pastiche, but also shows that the famous "Goncourt" pastiche from In Search of Lost Time has attracted so much attention because it already attained the postmodern; that is, it eliminated temporal depth and experience, transforming time itself into a nostalgic style of an era, and into the sort of aestheticized surface that came to define postmodernism decades later. To reflect this transformation of pastiche, this work rearticulates its history in France around Proust. Reconfiguring a scholastic, classically-inspired pedagogical tradition based on imitation, and breaking with the dominant satirical practice, Proust's work opened up possibilities in the twentieth century for a new kind of pastiche: playful and performative in the literary field, and postmodern in a French cinema that, as with the Goncourt pastiche, represents time as the visual style of an era, whether unreflexively in "heritage" films such as Régis Wargnier's Indochine, or discerningly in Eric Rohmer's Lady and the Duke, which uses period pictorial and painterly conventions to illustrate how the representation of history onscreen typically flattens time into style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486926
• ISBN-10: 1611486920
• Artikelnr.: 42092498

Autorenporträt

James F. Austin is associate professor of French at Connecticut College.

Inhaltsangabe

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"
Buy! 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