Proust Among the Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proust Among the Stars write by Malcolm Bowie. This book was released on 1998. Proust Among the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Self --Time --Art --Politics --Morality --Sex --Death.
Mourning and Creativity in Proust
Mourning and Creativity in Proust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourning and Creativity in Proust write by Anna Magdalena Elsner. This book was released on 2017-03-09. Mourning and Creativity in Proust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores Proust’s answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novel’s final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tribute to those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Proust’s novel captivating for readers since its publication.
Philosophy As Fiction : Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
Philosophy As Fiction : Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy As Fiction : Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust write by Joshua Landy Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Stanford University. This book was released on 2004-07-21. Philosophy As Fiction : Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art--and literary, in that its situations are imaginary and its stylization inescapably prominent, Proust's novel presents us with a conundrum. How should it be read? Can the two discursive structures co-exist, or must philosophy inevitably undermine literature (by sapping the narrative of its vitality) and literature undermine philosophy (by placing its claims in the mouth of an often unreliable narrator)? In the case of Proust at least, the result is greater than the sum of its parts. Not only can a coherent, distinctive philosophical system be extracted from the Recherche, once the narrator's periodic waywardness is taken into account; not only does a powerfully original style pervade its every nook, overtly reinforcing some theories and covertly exemplifying others; but aspects of the philosophy also serve literary ends, contributing more to character than to conceptual framework. What is more, aspects of the aesthetics serve philosophical ends, enabling a reader to engage in an active manner with an alternative art of living. Unlike the "essay" Proust might have written, his novel grants us the opportunity to use it as a practice ground for cooperation among our faculties, for the careful sifting of memories, for the complex procedures involved in self-fashioning, and for the related art of self-deception. It is only because the narrator's insights do not always add up--a weakness, so long as one treats the novel as a straightforward treatise--that it can produce its training effect, a feature that turns out to be its ultimate strength.
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust write by Jennifer Rushworth. This book was released on 2016-11-24. Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss. Rushworth explores a variety of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.
Proust/Warhol
Proust/Warhol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proust/Warhol write by David Carrier. This book was released on 2009. Proust/Warhol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Proust/Warhol : Analytical Philosophy of Art employs three key intellectual tools : the aesthetic theory of Arthur Danto, the account of Proust by Joshua Landy, and the analysis of the art of living by Alexander Nehamas. Proust/Warhol concludes with a discussion of an issue of particular importance for Warhol, the relationship between art and fashion."--Jacket
