Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: William C. Carter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 902
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300195095

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. "An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew."-Roger Pearson, "New York Times Book Review" "William C. Carter is Proust's definitive biographer."-Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the "New York Times Book Review""

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Author: George Duncan Painter
Publisher: New York : Random House
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1989
Genre: Novelists, French
ISBN:

Painter exhausted all available resources to create this portrait not only of Proust and his work but also of turn-of-the-century France with its salons, its political tension, its poets and its painters. 24 photos.

What Film Is Good For

What Film Is Good For
Author: Mike Figgis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2023
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 0520386809

For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. Their responses range from the most personal to the most theoretical--and, together, recast current debates about film ethics. Movie watching here emerges as a wellspring of value, able to sustain countless visions of "the good life." Films, these authors affirm, make us reflect, connect, adapt; they evoke wonder and beauty; they challenge and transform. In a word, its varieties of value make film invaluable.

The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle

The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 4175
Release: 2012-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679645683

Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

The Anatomy of Memory

The Anatomy of Memory
Author: James McConkey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A collection of writings from St. Augustine to Diane Ackerman illuminating the nature of memory and the varied roles it plays in our lives. Each piece is prefaced by an extensive introduction written by the editor, a perceptive thinker in his own right. Author-indexed only; no bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms

Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472066339

An unexpectedly entertaining collection of writing by poets discussing the creative inspiration and artistic form of their work.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2479
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317763211

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory

Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory
Author: Jennifer Green-Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000211487

Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it. Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come –including our own. In addition to being invaluable for scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies, this book will also be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature, visual culture and intellectual history.

Thinking Cinema with Proust

Thinking Cinema with Proust
Author: Patrick Ffrench
Publisher: Legenda
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781781886359

How can Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a 'merely' cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is that the Recherche can provide a powerful catalyst for re-thinking the cinema, and that the 'structural absence' of cinema from Proust's novel is rich in implications. Drawing on a complex terrain of intersections and overlaps between the experience of the spectator and that of Proust's narrator and reader, the book is focused around a series of motifs - reverie, the camera obscura, the magic lantern, projection, gesture and 'screen memory' - which enable a fluid movement back and forth between Proust and film theory. Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King's College London.