The Cambridge Companion to Proust provides a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters and its humor.
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"...the panoramic view of approaches that it offers is valuable...the collection will be most useful for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students who have read some Proust and seek a critical overview of the major topics and themes in Prouse scholarship." CHOICE
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The Cambridge Companion to Proust aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters and its humour.
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Slightly uneven, but overall a solid introduction to Proust,
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This is an excellent and helpful introductory set of essays by leading Anglo-American Proust scholars that will prepare any beginner for working his or her way through Proust's masterpiece. As in any anthology, some of the essays are more rewarding than others. Many of the pieces provide a stellar introduction to Proust and Proust's world, while some (especially some of the later essays in the volume) are as impenetrable as some of Proust's own longer and unfathomable sentences. Nonetheless, anyone unfamiliar with Proust will come away well prepared to read and study Proust's masterpiece. A word of warning: if it is important to you not to know plot details (though Proust is hardly about plot; it isn't the destination in Proust, it is the getting there that counts) before reading a book, then you might want to consider skipping this. Personally, I believe that Proust is one of those rare authors about whose tale one needs to know as much as possible before reading.The volume is apt to be of less value to Proust scholars, or even serious readers who have read the biographies by either Carter or Tadie, or the critical works of Roger Shattuck, or others (both Carter and Shattuck have essays in this volume). The best essays in the collection tend to be those that are more introductory in nature. The weaker essays tend to be those that are more specialized and focused on specific issues in Proust. Overall, however, I encourage anyone needing an introductory work on Proust to consider spending some time working through the essays in this book.
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This book is essential reading for those new to Proust, as I am. The variety of topics ranges from Proust's life, to his writing style (including, believe it or not, his brevity), to the period of French cultural history in which the novel is set. I cannot imagine reading Search for Lost Time without this kind of preparation.
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A la recherche du temps perdu spans the period in France between the 1870s and the years of the 1914-18 war, together with an ill-defined post-war period: this represents more or less Proust's own life (1871-1922).] Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sequential selves, les lys, des jeunes filles, les fours, temps perdu, involuntary memory, zoo pages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcel Proust, Mme Verdurin, New York, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Mme Swann, Proust's Narrator, First World War, Anatole France, Belle Epoque, Duchesse de Guermantes, Charles Swann, Reynaldo Hahn, Bois de Boulogne, Cambridge University Press, Mme de Guermantes, Selected Letters, Baron de Charlus, Marie Nordlinger, Mme de Villeparisis, Philip Kolb, Cornell University Press, Duc de Guermantes, Jean Milly, Mme de Forcheville, Postmodern Proust New!
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A la recherche du temps perdu spans the period in France between the 1870s and the years of the 1914-18 war, together with an ill-defined post-war period: this represents more or less Proust's own life (1871-1922).] Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sequential selves, les lys, des jeunes filles, les fours, temps perdu, involuntary memory, zoo pages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcel Proust, Mme Verdurin, New York, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Mme Swann, Proust's Narrator, First World War, Anatole France, Belle Epoque, Duchesse de Guermantes, Charles Swann, Reynaldo Hahn, Bois de Boulogne, Cambridge University Press, Mme de Guermantes, Selected Letters, Baron de Charlus, Marie Nordlinger, Mme de Villeparisis, Philip Kolb, Cornell University Press, Duc de Guermantes, Jean Milly, Mme de Forcheville, Postmodern Proust New!
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- Contre Sainte Beuve by Marcel Proust on 15 pages
- Jean Santeuil by Marcel Proust on 15 pages
- MARCEL PROUST: Textes Retrouves (French Edition) by Marcel Proust on 8 pages
- Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin on 5 pages
- Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck on 4 pages
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- Philosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust by Joshua Landy in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Proust at the Movies (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Martine Beugnet in Front Matter, page 191, and Back Matter
- The Sense of an Interior: Four Rooms and the Writers that Shaped Them by Diana Fuss in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Shaun Richards in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Alexander Leggatt in Front Matter
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