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This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.
Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521669610
This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139500236
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
Author : Richard Bales
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2010
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The Cambridge Companion to Proust aims to provide 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, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
Author : David Ellison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521895774
A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107021898
This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.
Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107036046
A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515041
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521516433
Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' ('In Search of Lost Time', 1913─27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of 'In Search of Lost Time', which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to individual images and the intricacies of Proust's finely-stitched prose. The book reaches beyond stale commonplaces of madeleines and memory, alerting readers to Proust's verbal virtuosity, his preoccupations with the fleeting and the unforeseeable, with desire, jealousy and the nature of reality. Lively, informative chapters on Proust criticism and the work's afterlives in contemporary culture provide a multitude of paths to follow. The book charges readers with the energy and confidence to move beyond anecdote and hearsay and to read Proust's novel for themselves.
Author : Owen Heathcote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316867382
One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.
Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521424134
The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.