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Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's relation to the arts. Going beyond the classic question of the models used by Proust for his fictional artists, the essays collected here explore how he learned from and integrated, in highly personal ways, the work of such creators as Wagner or Carpaccio. This volume reveals the breadth of Proust's engagement with varied art forms from different eras: from ""primitive"" arts to sound recordings, from medieval sculpture to Art Nouveau glassmaking, and from portrait photography to the private art of doodling. Chapters bring into focus issues of perception and detail in examining how Proust encountered and responded to works of art, and attend to the ways art shaped his complex relationship to identity, sexuality, humor, and the craft of writing.

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Author:   Christie McDonald (Harvard University, Massachusetts) ,  François Proulx (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9781107501911

ISBN 10:   1107501911
Pages:   305
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Art's Way: 2. Primitives and primitive arts in the Recherche Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; 3. 'Some dear or sad fantasy': faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval; 4. I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust's writing Christie McDonald; Part II. Apprenticing and Integrating: 5. Art and craft in Marcel Proust's life and work Virginie Greene; 6. 'Those blessed days': Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins; 7. 'Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne': musical resonance in Proust's Recherche John Hamilton; Part III. Expanding the Arts: 8. Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa; 9. Swann's gift, Odette's face: photography, money and desire in À la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac; 10. Oriane's artful fashions Caroline Weber; 11. Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé Elaine Scarry; Part IV. Perceiving and Transforming: 12. Proust's eye Françoise Leriche; 13. Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri; 14. Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence; Part V. Creative Identities: 15. Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson; 16. Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels; 17. 'Irregular' kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les plaisirs et les jours François Proulx; 18. The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon; Bibliography.

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Christie McDonald is Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard University. FranÇois Proulx is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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