The gardens of desire
Subtitle: Marcel Proust and the fugitive sublime
By: by Stephen Gilbert Brown
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781423739906
Subjects: Desire in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM; Criticism and interpretation; French; European
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : entering the garden; title: The kiss of death : desire in the garden of good and evil; title: The art of Sapphic desire : the curse of the little phrase; title: The hymenoptera of self and other : the making and (un)making of knowledge; title: Three moments of desire : the ideal, the real, and the remembered; title: Recherche and the Rankian gaze; title: Conclusion : the art of madness.