Leo Bersani

Marcel Proust (eBook, PDF)

The Fictions of Life and of Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Oxford University Press published eminent literary critic Leo Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal of interest among philosophers of literature, among others, and features a new preface from the author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199992867
• Artikelnr.: 39199307

Autorenporträt

Leo Bersani is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Intimacies ( with Adam Philips, 2008), Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity (with U. Dutoit, 2004), Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt (with U. Dutoit, 2003), Caravaggio's Secrets (with U. Dutoit, 1998), and Homos (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter One
* Fantasies of the Self and the World
* I. "Je n'étais plus qu'un coeur qui battait"
* II. Self-effacement and self-projection
* III. The vulnerable self and its many deaths
* Chapter Two
* The Anguish and Inspiration of Jealousy
* I. The mystery of other people's desires
* II. Jealousy and the tortured imagination
* III. Strategies to immobilize the "êtres de fuite," and "les joies de
la solitude"
* IV. From the lover's anguish to the novelist's possessions
* Chapter Three
* The Language of Love
* I. The loved one's absence from the lover's desires
* II. The self as an "appareil vide": a critique of psychological
analysis
* III. The "notes fondamentales" from the perspective of memory:
psychological analysis reinstated
* IV. The monologue of love as a dialogue
* V. The merging of fantasy and realism
* Chapter Four
* Social Contexts: Observation and Invention
* I. The aristocracy's glamor
* II. Society as a work of art: the poetry of the past
* III. Reflections of Marcel's psychology in the social world
* IV. "Le royaume du néant"
* V. Variety of characterization and the general laws
* VI. Marcel the character and Proust the author
* Chapter Five
* Marcel's Vocation
* I. The artist and the "résidu réel" of personality
* II. Involuntary memory and the work of art
* III. The "accent" of individuality in literary style
* IV. Metaphor: "les surfaces sont devenues réfléchissantes"
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Index