Mirages and Mad Beliefs

preview-18
  • Mirages and Mad Beliefs Book Detail

  • Author : Christopher Prendergast
  • Release Date : 2013-07-21
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 233
  • ISBN 13 : 1400846315
  • File Size : 62,62 MB

Mirages and Mad Beliefs by Christopher Prendergast PDF Summary

Book Description: Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Mirages and Mad Beliefs books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Mirages and Mad Beliefs

Mirages and Mad Beliefs

File Size : 79,79 MB
Total View : 8211 Views
DOWNLOAD

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redempti

Misreading Anita Brookner

Misreading Anita Brookner

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 9311 Views
DOWNLOAD

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creatin

Mad about Belief

Mad about Belief

File Size : 41,41 MB
Total View : 9057 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this book Larry Harwood situates and evaluates Bertrand Russell’s thought on religion within the context of Russell’s biography. His well-known animus to

Different Speeds, Same Furies

Different Speeds, Same Furies

File Size : 99,99 MB
Total View : 1341 Views
DOWNLOAD

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary c

The Proustian Mind

The Proustian Mind

File Size : 91,91 MB
Total View : 6869 Views
DOWNLOAD

When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study