Proust and the Arts

Proust and the Arts
Author: Christie McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107103363

Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

Paintings in Proust

Paintings in Proust
Author: Eric Karpeles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Eric Karpele's guide offers a feast for the eyes as it celebrates the close relationship between the visual and literary arts in Proust's masterpiece, Karpeles has identified and located all of the paintings to which Proust makes exact reference. Where only a painter's name is mentioned to indicate a certain mood or appearance, he has chosen a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to evoke. Botticelli's angels, Manet's courtesans, Mantegna's warriors and Carpaccio's saints stand among Monet's water lilies and Piranesi's engravings of Rome, while Karpeles's insightful essay and lucid contextual commentary explain their significance to Proust. Extensive notes and a comprehensive index of all painters and paintings mentioned in the novel provide an invaluable resource for the reader navigating In Search of Lost Time for the first time or the fifth."--BOOK JACKET.

Proust as Philosopher

Proust as Philosopher
Author: Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415584310

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst many other themes. Proust as Philosopher is the first book to properly explore Proust from a philosophical angle and argues that the key to understanding Proust is the concept of experience.

Chardin and Rembrandt

Chardin and Rembrandt
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2016-11-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1941701507

Chardin and Rembrandt is an unfinished essay written around 1895 by Marcel Proust. Oft overlooked in Prousts illustrious writing career, this book is a newly translated version by David Zwirner Books as one of the first two entries in its ekphrasis series. This essay is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.

Proust at the Majestic

Proust at the Majestic
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Presents a study of the final days of the seminal author and discusses his upbringing, themes in his works, his rise as a famous writer, and the final months before his death.

Philosophy by Other Means

Philosophy by Other Means
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022677080X

"The relationship between philosophy and aesthetic criticism has occupied Robert Pippin throughout his illustrious career. Whether discussing film, literature, or modern and contemporary art, Pippin's claim is that we cannot understand aesthetic objects unless we reckon with the fact that some distinct philosophical issue is integral to their meaning. In his latest offering, Philosophy by Other Means, we are treated to a collection of essays that builds on this larger project, offering profound ruminations on philosophical issues in aesthetics along with revelatory readings of Henry James, Marcel Proust, and J. M. Coetzee"--

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Author: Christopher Prendergast
Publisher: Europa Compass
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781609457600

A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless narratives of great expectations and lost illusions. In this lively and entertaining book, Christopher Prendergast traces that journey as it unfolds on an arc defined by the polarities in his title: living and dying. At once a careful contemplation Proust's masterwork and an exploration of the rich sensory and impressionistic tapestry of a lived world, Living and Dying with Marcel Proust addresses such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food, digestion, color, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humor. Entertaining and erudite, Prendergast's book will surely become the companion for all readers either about to reembark on Proust's three-million-word journey or setting out for the first time.

Proust and America

Proust and America
Author: Michael Murphy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1846311144

“It is strange,” Proust wrote in 1909, “that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American.” In the spirit of Proust’s admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining Proust’s key American influences—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler—Proust and America investigates the previously overlooked influence of the American neurologist George Beard, whose writings on neurasthenia and “American nervousness” contributed to the essential modernity of the author’s work.

The Love Affair as a Work of Art

The Love Affair as a Work of Art
Author: Dan Hofstadter
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1997-06-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0374524858

In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writing—diaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among others—bears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love affairs developed as an art form. As his subtle analysis makes clear, the love letters exchanged in a series of highly charged liaisons also suggested the themes of celebrated future novels.

The Weather in Proust

The Weather in Proust
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0822351587

At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.