Roland Barthes : the Proust variations /
This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monume...
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| Online adgang: | Electronic book from EBSCO Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBog |
| Sprog: | English |
| Udgivet: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019 ©2019 |
| Serier: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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| Summary: | This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a seminar delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (189 pages) |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781789624083 1789624088 |
| Adgang: | Access limited to authorized users. |