PROUST THE BODY & LITERARY FOR (Adobe Reader) ebook download Michael R. Finn

Proust, the Body and Literary Form

This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siËcle '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 earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.

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Title of ebook: Proust, the Body and Literary Form
ISBN: 9780511036408
parent-ISBN: 9780521641890
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1853 kb
Pages: 224
Published: 03-1995
Released online for download: 03-24-1995
Author of eBook: Finn, Michael R.

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