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Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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Description
This 1999 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 earlier writers including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Finn argues that once Proust cast off his concerns about being a nervous weakling he was freed to poke fun both at the supposed purity of the novel form. Hysteria - as a figure and as a theme - becomes a key to the Proustian narrative, and a certain kind of wordless, bodily copying of gesture and event is revealed to be at the heart of a writing technique which undermines many of the conventions of fiction.
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Product details
- Hardback | 226 pages
- 152 x 229 x 16mm | 500g
- 09 Oct 2012
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- English
- New.
- 0521641896
- 9780521641890
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria; 2. An anxiety of language; 3. Transitive writing; 4. Form: from anxiety to play; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Review quote
'Finn has given us a splendid book.' Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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