Title Proust and emotion : the importance of affect in A la recherche du temps perdu / Inge Crosman Wimmers

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) Series University of Toronto romance series University of Toronto romance series. Contents The Narrating Presence -- Separation Anxiety: The drame du coucher -- Separation Anxiety: An Emotional Paradigm -- Separation Anxiety in Love Relationships -- Narrative Identity -- Emblematic Narration -- From Impression to Expression -- Reading Emotions -- Conclusion: Reading Proust in the Twenty-first Century Summary In Proust and Emotion, Inge Crosman Wimmers proposes a new approach to A la recherche du temps perdu that centres on the role of affect. Through close reading of the hero-narrator's personal history, the author shows how emotional paradigms (especially separation anxiety), involuntary memory, and other compelling impressions give focus and structure to Proust's novel. Drawing on reader-oriented and emotion theories, she shows how affect commands the attention of the 'motivated reader' and is crucial to the process of self-understanding for both the narrator and the reader. This is the first extensive study in English to take fully into consideration the drafts (esquisses) published in the new Pléiade edition of the novel, the Mauriac edition of Albertine disparue, and material from the unpublished Proust manuscripts - all of which shed further light on the importance of affect in A la recherche. Proust and Emotion will appeal to readers interested in an approach to Proust that combines insights from philosophy, psychology, and literary aesthetics and in a poetics of reading that pays particular attention to emotion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index Subject Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu. Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 fast Proust, Marcel. À la recherche du temps perdu. swd À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel) fast Subject Emotions in literature. Reader-response criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Emotions in literature Reader-response criticism Gefühl Emoties. À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442678866 1442678860 1281996491 9781281996497

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