Proust's Imaginary Museum: Reproductions and Reproduction in a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu: 5 - Brossura

Townsend, Gabrielle

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ISBN 10: 3039111248 ISBN 13: 9783039111244

Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2008

Riassunto

This study of Marcel Proust’s creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author’s dependence on secondary visual sources. Proust made constant use of reproductions – photographs, engravings, postcards, illustrations in books – as sources of reference and as narrative devices in their own right. Furthermore, he consistently chose to use reproductions in preference to originals, whether people, places or works of art. Bringing together for the first time a mass of factual information documenting Proust’s use of second-hand images, the author argues that reproductions play a key role in the work’s complex, multi-layered structure. Rather than being hampered by their limitations, Proust took advantage of their distancing effect to free his imagination and to insert new layers of meaning into his narrative.

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Informazioni sull'autore

The Author : Gabrielle Townsend read Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After a career at a senior level in publishing she returned to academic study, gaining an M.A. in Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, and then went on to complete a D.Phil. on Proust at Oxford University, supervised by Prof. Malcolm Bowie. She currently helps edit an academic journal and tutors Oxford undergraduates in French literature.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3039111248
• ISBN 13: 9783039111244
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile