Science and structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu

Science and structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu / Nicola Luckhurst.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Luckhurst, Nicola
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:	Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:	Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922. > À la recherche du temps perdu. Literature and science.
Online Access:	Table of contents Publisher description

Table of Contents:

1. Maxims
1.1. The Proustian critique
1.2. Proust as moraliste
1.3. Writing La Bruyere and rewriting
1.4. Concluding our reading of maxims
1.5. Proust as scientist
1.6. Poincare's science and method
2. Correspondence between Art and Science
3. Retroduction
4. Hypothesis
4.1. Tracing hypothesis
abundance
4.2. The hypothetical norm
4.3. 'A propos des deux hypotheses essentiel'
5. Modelling
5.1. Modelling aesthetics
5.2. Swann's story
5.3. Scientific modelling
5.4. A correspondence course in modelling
5.5. Metaphor or model?
5.6. Sodome et Gomorrhe
5.7. Botany: the state of the field
5.8. Genesis of the model
5.9. The aesthetic model
6. Knowledge as Revolution and Revelation
6.1. Revelation and the archive: male homosexuality
6.2. Revelation and aporia: female homosexuality
6.3. Narratives of revelation
7. Theory-Laden Souffrance
8. Serendipity.