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Proust's Gods
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Description
Proust's metaphorical vision plucks legends and figures drawn from these sources out of their original settings and thrusts them with all their persistent resonances into new and often unlikely contexts. Yet these deliberately incongruous juxtapositions and the sliding scale of tones they produce are also strangely apt, and amongst the richest sources of humorous effects in the novel.
The study also analyses the increasing sophistication of Proust's imagery from his earliest writings onwards, and re-evaluates the role of the largely-ignored Correspondance in his development as a writer. Considered as texts rather than biographical documents, the letters are identified as a flexible stylistic 'stamping ground' and an arena for experimentation for later works.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2000-10-05
Publication Date:
2000-08-03
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198160089
ISBN13:
9780198160083
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
502 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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