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Proust and the Visual
This edited collection considers the role of the visual in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and how it contributes to the novel’s sense of modernity. The first few essays examine the philosophical implications of Proust’s quest for truth, taking up analyses of the thing, the body, and the relation between the seer and the visible. The essays in the second section concentrate on the way meaning emerges from the description of experience, as well as the cultural environment in which it is inscribed through the workings and reworkings of certain images and textures. The final essays explore how Proust’s unique approach to the visual has become in recent years the inspiration for other visual practices: film, sculpture, painting, and dance.
288 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2012
University of Wales Press - Studies in Visual Culture
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Series editors’ preface
Notes on abbreviations and quotations
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
Notes on abbreviations and quotations
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
I. The philosophical implications of the quest for truth
1. ‘The secret blackness of milk’: Proust, Merleau-Ponty, Literature
Nathalie Aubert
2. ‘Un assemblage composite’: Perception and Grafting in Du côté de chez Swann
Adam Watt
3. Proust and the Analysis of Gesture
Patrick ffrench
4. Disentangling Modernism: A Common Drive Towards Aesthetics
Hugues Azérad
II. Proust’s response to the visual world: the verbal semiotics of translation from the seen to the unseen
5. Proust and Handwriting
Akane Kawakami
6. Images Come Alive (or how to make images with words)
Karen Haddad
7. Proust’s Picture Plane
Thomas Baldwin
8. The Art Market in Proust: A Comparative Study of the Treatment of Rembrandt and the Salon Painter Gleyre in Proust
Sarah Tribout-Joseph
9. ‘Avid Eyes and Ears: Photographic Practice, Perception and Memory in À la recherché du temps perdu’
Áine Larkin
III. Other artists’ interpretations of À la recherché du temps perdu
10. ‘Mais dans les beaux livres, tous les contresens qu’on fait sont beaux’: Marcel Proust, Raoul Ruiz, Volker Schlöndorff and Harold Pinter
Vincent Ferré
11. In praise of iconoclasm: Reflections on the Improbable ‘Illustration’ of À la Recherche
Florence Godeau
12. Intermedial Proust: Harold Pinter and Di Trevis’s Stage Adaptation of À la recherché du temps perdu
Marion Schmid
12. Intermedial Proust: Harold Pinter and Di Trevis’s Stage Adaptation of À la recherché du temps perdu
Marion Schmid
Index