Au seuil de la modernite : Proust, Literature and the Arts:Essays in Memory of Richard Bales.
Title:
Au seuil de la modernite : Proust, Literature and the Arts:Essays in Memory of Richard Bales.
Author:
Harkness, Nigel.
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9783035301298
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Series:
Romanticism and after in France/Le Romantisme et après en France ; v.15
Romanticism and after in France/Le Romantisme et après en France
Contents:
Contents - xi -- Acknowledgements - xi -- Abbreviations - xiii -- Nigel Harkness and Marion Schmid - Introduction - 1 -- 1 Mediations - 15 -- Catherine O'Beirne - Proust and the Carlylean Mediation of Dante - 17 -- Annick Bouillaguet - Cryptage et décryptage de la présence de Balzac dans l'écritured''A la recherche du temps perdu' - 39 -- Timothy Unwin - Proust, Flaubert, et Flaubert avant Flaubert - 49 -- Marion Schmid - Proust et Robert de Montesquiou: décadence, classicisme, originalité - 65 -- II Cultures of Modernity - 81 -- Alison Finch - Marcel Proust: Cultural Historian - 83 -- Adam Watt - Proust, Poet of the Ordinary - 97 -- Cynthia Gamble - 22 rue de Provence: Siegfried Bing's Hub of Art Nouveau Creativity and its 'Rayonnement' in the World of Proust - 113 -- Edward J. Hughes - On the Nation and its Culture: Proust, Barrès and Daniel Halévy - 129 -- III Ontologies of the Modern - 149 -- Jack Jordan - Proust's Narrator: Travels in the Space-Time Continuum - 151 -- Diane R. Leonard - Proust in the Fourth Dimension - 165 -- Patrick O'Donovan - Proust's 'grands chagrins utiles': Beyond Contingency? - 179 -- Jean Milly - Levers de rideau amoureux chez Proust - 195 -- IV Artistic Correspondences - 209 -- Nigel Harkness - 'Ut sculptura poesis?' Literary-Sculptural Intersections in Balzac and Proust - 211 -- Clare Moran - From Maeterlinck to Masks: Theatre and 'Mise en Scène' in the Art of Fernand Khnopf f and James Ensor - 237 -- Patrick McGuinness - The Language of Politics in Symbolist and Decadent Polemic: From 'Le Décadent to the École romane' - 259 -- Peter Broome - Michaux and Magritte - 283 -- V Postface - 301 -- Bernard Brun - Hommage à Richard Bales, pionnier des études proustiennes - 305 -- Notes on Contributors -315 -- Index - 321.
Abstract:
This volume of essays, which is dedicated to the late Richard Bales, one of the doyens of Proust studies, considers Proust's pivotal role at the threshold of modernity, between nineteenth- and twentieth-century forms of writing and thinking, between the Belle Epoque and the First World War, between tradition and innovation. More than just a temporal concept, this threshold is theorized in the volume as a liminal space where borders (geographical, artistic, personal) dissolve, where greater possibilities for artistic dialogue emerge, and where unexpected encounters (between artists, genres and disciplines) take place. Working both backwards and forwards from the publication dates of A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27), the seventeen essays written specially for this volume take as their focus Proust's manifold engagements with the world of modernity, as well as intermedial relations among the generations of artists before and immediately after him. Looking back to the nineteenth century, the undisputed starting point for nascent forms of modernity in Western art and literature, and a period that was uniquely formative for the young Proust, they also offer insights into inter-artistic dialogue in Surrealist and post-Surrealist painting and poetry.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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