Overview

Leo Bersani is an eminent literary critic whose influential work spans half a century. His vast, in many ways unclassifiable, oeuvre has traversed and blurred the boundaries of the disciplines of modern French literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, art history, film theory, philosophical aesthetics, and masculinity studies and sexuality studies. Oxford University Press published Bersani's first book, on Proust, in 1965, but the work has long been out of print. This new edition comes in response to a recent renewal of interest among philosophers of literature, among others, and features a new preface from the author.

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Author:   Leo Bersani (Professor Emeritus of French, Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780199931514

ISBN 10:   0199931518
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   18 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter One Fantasies of the Self and the World I. Je n'etais plus qu'un coeur qui battait II. Self-effacement and self-projection III. The vulnerable self and its many deaths Chapter Two The Anguish and Inspiration of Jealousy I. The mystery of other people's desires II. Jealousy and the tortured imagination III. Strategies to immobilize the etres de fuite, and les joies de la solitude IV. From the lover's anguish to the novelist's possessions Chapter Three The Language of Love I. The loved one's absence from the lover's desires II. The self as an appareil vide : a critique of psychological analysis III. The notes fondamentales from the perspective of memory: psychological analysis reinstated IV. The monologue of love as a dialogue V. The merging of fantasy and realism Chapter Four Social Contexts: Observation and Invention I. The aristocracy's glamor II. Society as a work of art: the poetry of the past III. Reflections of Marcel's psychology in the social world IV. Le royaume du neant V. Variety of characterization and the general laws VI. Marcel the character and Proust the author Chapter Five Marcel's Vocation I. The artist and the residu reel of personality II. Involuntary memory and the work of art III. The accent of individuality in literary style IV. Metaphor: les surfaces sont devenues reflechissantes Conclusion Notes Index

Reviews

Wood's easy movements across the expanses of Proustian writing are thus grounded by his attentiveness to linguistic detail, and readers willing to embrace his suggestive style will find much to stimulate reflection in this brief yet far-reaching study. * Richard Mason, Modern Language Review *

Wood's easy movements across the expanses of Proustian writing are thus grounded by his attentiveness to linguistic detail, and readers willing to embrace his suggestive style will find much to stimulate reflection in this brief yet far-reaching study. * Richard Mason, Modern Language Review * An engaging book for readers of Proust. ...I am grateful: this short book has extended my Proust. * Andrea Goldsmith, Australian Book Review *

Author Information

Leo Bersani is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Intimacies ( with Adam Philips, 2008), Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity (with U. Dutoit, 2004), Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt (with U. Dutoit, 2003), Caravaggio's Secrets (with U. Dutoit, 1998), and Homos (1995).

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