Proust, the Body and Literary Form.

Proust, the Body and Literary Form.

Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in late nineteenth-century France, and relates Proust's anxieties about hysteria to his concern about literary form. Finn reveals Proust's novel as deeply concerned with bodily and literary hysteria, his writing technique is one which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finn, Michael R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge Studies in French, 59.
Subjects:
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922 > Criticism and interpretation.
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922
Neuroses in literature.
Hysteria in literature.
Hysteria in literature
Neuroses in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Proust between neurasthenia and hysteria; Chapter 2 An anxiety of language; Chapter 3 Transitive writing; Chapter 4 Form: from anxiety to play; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in French.

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