Proust, the body, and literary form / Michael R. Finn.
Proust, the body, and literary form / Michael R. Finn.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N843.912/8
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English
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xiii, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria. Nervous precursors. The novel of the neurasthenic. Writing and volition. Involition's way. Neurasthenia: diagnosis and response -- 2. An anxiety of language. Speaking the Other. The language hysteria of Sainte-Beuve. Voicing Bergotte -- 3. Transitive writ...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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"This study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siecle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and were mirrored in the nerve-based afflictions of other writ...
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Proust, the body, and literary form / Michael R. Finn.
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Cambridge studies in French ; 59.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N843.912/8
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0521641896
9780521641890
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843.912
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991012139199702626
