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The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust

Baldwin, Thomas (2005) The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust. Peter Lang, Oxford, 188 pp. ISBN 978-3-03910-323-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:76852)

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This book is the first to describe the development of Proust’s treatment of material objects from his earliest work Les Plaisirs et les jours to his mature novel A la recherche du temps perdu. It is unique in its exploration of the movement within Proust’s work from unreflective and spontaneous representation to a meta-narrative of consciousness. The latter finds particular resonance in a peculiarly Proustian pictoriality which has been largely unnoticed. By exploring connections between Proust’s pictoriality and his reflections on ‘matter’ and ‘surface’, this book suggests a new and radical approach to the modernism of A la recherche du temps perdu

Item Type: Book
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PQ Romance Literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Thomas Baldwin
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2019 10:11 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:26 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/76852 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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