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Proust Outdoors
Nathan Guss
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Description for Proust Outdoors
Hardback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
Proust Outdoors will surprise anyone familiar with Marcel Proust, a writer associated with the cork-lined bedroom, the aristocratic salon, the interiority of memory, and, more recently, the figurative closet. The narrator uses figures of interior space to express literature's ability to recapture the past. However, his depictions of great works and other characters' theories convey art's power to open new horizons of meaning in vast, wild spaces such as alpine wilderness, the eastern steppe, or stormy seas. This study focuses on the aesthetic stakes of these conflicting spaces. Moving between close rhetorical readings of passages where the opposing aesthetics are ... Read more
Proust Outdoors will surprise anyone familiar with Marcel Proust, a writer associated with the cork-lined bedroom, the aristocratic salon, the interiority of memory, and, more recently, the figurative closet. The narrator uses figures of interior space to express literature's ability to recapture the past. However, his depictions of great works and other characters' theories convey art's power to open new horizons of meaning in vast, wild spaces such as alpine wilderness, the eastern steppe, or stormy seas. This study focuses on the aesthetic stakes of these conflicting spaces. Moving between close rhetorical readings of passages where the opposing aesthetics are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483123
SKU
V9781611483123
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About Nathan Guss
Nathan Guss is assistant professor of French at Fort Lewis College, Colorado.
Reviews for Proust Outdoors
It is deeply gratifying to see how much can still be done with Proust, and in such exciting ways - ways that profoundly upset, and dramatically renew, our stale critical habits and convictions. Mr. Guss has certainly changed, if not my life itself, a crucial aspect of it: the way I read Proust.
Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University
Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University