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Mourning and Creativity in Proust
Anna Magdalena Elsner
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Description for Mourning and Creativity in Proust
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Num Pages: 238 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. ... Read more
This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137603302
SKU
V9781137603302
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About Anna Magdalena Elsner
Anna Magdalena Elsner is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of French and the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King's College London, UK. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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