Proust and the arts
By: edited by Christie McDonald and François Proulx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781107103368
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's relation to the arts. Going beyond the classic question of the models used by Proust for his fictional artists, the essays collected here explore how he learned from and integrated in highly personal ways the work of such innovators as Wagner or Carpaccio. This volume reveals the breadth of Proust's engagement with varied art forms from different eras: from 'primitive' arts to sound recordings, from medieval sculpture to Art Nouveau glassmaking, from portrait photography to the private art of doodling. Chapters bring into focus issues of perception and detail in examining how Proust encountered and responded to works of art, and attend to the ways art shaped his complex relationship to identity, sexuality, humour, and the craft of writing"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. Art's Way: 1. Primitives and primitive arts in the Recherche Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; 2. 'Some dear or sad fantasy': faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval; 3. I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust's writing Christie McDonald; Part II. Apprenticing and Integrating: 4. Art and craft in Marcel Proust's life and work Virginie Greene; 5. 'Those blessed days': Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins; 6. 'Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagne;rienne': musical resonance in Proust's Recherche John Hamilton; Part III. Expanding the Arts: 7. Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa; 8. Swann's gift, Odette's face: photography, money and desire in &#192; la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac; 9. Oriane's fashionable art Caroline Weber; 10. Glass and clay: Proust and Galle; Elaine Scarry; Part IV. Perceiving and Transforming: 11. Proust's eye Fran&#231;oise Leriche; 12. Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri; 13. Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence; Part V. Creative Identities: 14. Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson; 15. Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels; 16. 'Irregular' kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les Plaisirs et les Jours Fran&#231;ois Proulx; 17. The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon; Bibliography.