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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

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A guide to three novels by Marcel Proust containing selections of critical essays, plot summaries for each work, and a biography of Proust.
Within A Budding Grove

Within A Budding Grove

Marcel Proust

This book is one of the most popular novels of Marcel Proust, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Marcel Proust: A Life

Marcel Proust: A Life

William C. Carter

This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust.
Letters of Marcel Proust

Letters of Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide

Patrick Alexander

Â'Marcel ProustÂ's Search for Lost TimeÂ' contains a full synopsis of the seven-volume novel, a description of fifty major characters, a biography of Proust and descriptions of the historical setting.
The Cambridge Companion to Proust

The Cambridge Companion to Proust

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... most notably Maurice Bardeche, Marcel Proust romancier, 2 vols. (Paris: Les Sept Couleurs, 1971), Alison Winton, Proust's Additions. The Making of 'A la recherche du temps perdu', 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1977), Anthony Pugh ...
Days of Reading

Days of Reading

Marcel Proust

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.
Remembrance of Things Past

Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust

Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation.
The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars ...

The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars ...

Roland Barthes

Janis Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). 36. See the seminar “Proust and Photography,” infra, p. 346. 37. Élisabeth de Clermont- Tonnerre, Robert de Montesquiou et Marcel Proust (Paris: Flammarion, 1925), 21 . 38.
The Proust Screenplay:

The Proust Screenplay:

Harold Pinter

Presents the author's never-produced screenplay of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," created with the collaboration of director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray over the course of one year in the early 1970s.
Black Holes

Black Holes

Joseph Hillis Miller

J. Hillis Miller's text deals mainly with Anthony Trollope's Ayala's angel and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
In The Absence Of Men

In The Absence Of Men

Philippe Besson

In the Absence of Men is a stunning first novel: in its daring in representing Marcel Proust as a character, in the beauty of its prose and in its delicacy of feeling. It is a quite remarkable debut. It is 1916.
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

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These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Reflections on the Principles of Psychology: William James ...

Reflections on the Principles of Psychology: William James ...

Michael G. Johnson

Howard R. Pollio University of Tennessee Mention the phrase stream of consciousness, and you are soon likely to find yourself talking about James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, or even Edward Dujardin.
Architecture Timed: Designing with Time in Mind

Architecture Timed: Designing with Time in Mind

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Marcel Proust Kevin Nute, Intersections between sustainable practices and weather-generated indoor movement, 2014 Grey ticks indicate combinations in which the indoor animation can successfully coexist with the sustainable practice, but ...
Drawings by Marcel Dzama from the Bernardi Collection

Drawings by Marcel Dzama from the Bernardi Collection

Marcel Dzama

in just 2004 Marcel Dzama has had high profile exhibitions at New York's The Drawing Room and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This is the only book on his work currently available.
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Jerome Boyd Maunsell

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Proust and the Arts

Proust and the Arts

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Elisabeth Ladenson In the midst of all the hoopla of the centennial celebrations of Proust's work, long ago firmly canonized as a great work of modernism, the sheer strangeness of his novel tends to get lost. And of all the bizarre aspects of `A la ...
Proust's Lesbianism

Proust's Lesbianism

Elisabeth Ladenson

Ladenson instead demonstrates the primacy of lesbianism to the novel, showing that Proust's lesbians are the only characters to achieve a plenitude of reciprocated desire.
Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial

Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial

Rex Ferguson

My involvement in the Proust Reading Group was of immeasurable assistance in helping me to clarify my interpretation of Proust's novel: thank you to, amongst others, Maria Dick, Robbie McLaughlan, Greg Mackinnon, David Stewart, Eliza ...
Proust and Venice

Proust and Venice

Peter Collier

This study of Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central obsessions, and shows how a whole network of allusions to art (from Titian to Turner, from Byzantine ...
Creative Fidelity

Creative Fidelity

Gabriel Marcel

These lectures and essays were regarded by Marcel as the best introduction to his thought.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Jenny Slate

View our feature on Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Millions of people have fallen in love with Marcel.
Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art

Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art

David Carrier

Proust/Warhol concludes with a discussion of an issue of particular importance for Warhol, the relationship between art and fashion.
Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives Through ...

Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives Through ...

Coco Harris

Resurrecting Proust Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling Bridges the journal-memoir connection Suggests tried and true techniques along with an array of story-generating prompts Provides an excellent resource for extracting ...
Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective

Christophe Cherix

Marcel Broodthaers is organized by MoMA and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid, in close consultation with the artist’s Estate in Brussels.
Transformations of Musical Modernism

Transformations of Musical Modernism

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A few musicologists, for instance Marcel Cobussen, have begun to theorize the relationships between music and spirituality.17 At a more basic level, we have the long-dismissed category. 17 Marcel Cobussen, Thresholds: Rethinking ...

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