Proust, the body, and literary form / Michael R. Finn.

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Finn, Michael R

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in French ; 59.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511005075
9780511005077
051103640X
9780511036408
9780521641890
0521641896
0511117329
9780511117329
9780511485756
0511485751
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9781107116290
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9781280161940
0511149417
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0511309643
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0511051638
9780511051630

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proust, the body, and literary form.DDC classification:

843/.912 21

LOC classification:

PQ2631.R63 Z593 1999eb

Other classification:

18.25

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Contents:

1. Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria. Nervous precursors. The novel of the neurasthenic. Writing and volition. Involition's way. Neurasthenia: diagnosis and response -- 2. An anxiety of language. Speaking the Other. The language hysteria of Sainte-Beuve. Voicing Bergotte -- 3. Transitive writing. Correspondence. Journalism. Literary criticism. The pastiche: 'notre voix interieure' -- 4. Form: from anxiety to play. Closure. Openness and incompletion. Structure as iteration. Marcel's voice: the recurring author.

Summary: This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of other writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his nervous concerns he was free to poke fun at the supposed purity of the novel form.

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This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of other writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his nervous concerns he was free to poke fun at the supposed purity of the novel form.