Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marcel Proust
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Standard Name: Proust, Marcel
French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...
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Anne Carson
This booklet presents a literary analysis of the character Albertine who appears (mainly in volume 5) in Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu. It upholds the transposition theory that Albertine is based...
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Julia Kristeva
Proust provides JK
with new approaches to many of her recurring interests: the book is heterogeneous, without any organising thread of argument. She takes a psychoanalytical view of Proust
's fictional characters, and discusses his...
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Marghanita Laski
ML
defines ecstasy as experiences that are joyful, transitory, unexpected, rare, valued, and extraordinary to the point of often seeming as if derived from a praeternatural source.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press.
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
Having bought an entire set of Proust
when one of her books brought in more money than usual, midway in the second world war, PHJ
lectured on him as one of her favourite subjects.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner.
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Rebecca West
This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.
For the next couple of years Carswell's only completed literary work was an essay on women in Proust
that she contributed to the memorial volume on Proust collected by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
.
Carswell, John, and Catherine Carswell. “Introduction”. Lying Awake: An Unfinished Biography and Other Posthumous Papers, 1stst ed, Secker and Warburg, p. ix - xxi.
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Julia Kristeva
JK
's next work of criticism was entitled Le Temps sensible: Proust
et l'expérience littéraire.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
Volat, Hélène. Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography. http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~hvolat/kristeva/kristeva.htm.
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Dorothy Richardson
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry
, who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield
had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
41-2, 90, 212
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Dorothy Richardson
In a letter of 1952, Richardson comments that she would have willingly, delightedly translated Le temps retrouvé, the last volume of Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu, after the translator of...
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Julia Kristeva
These are Le féminin et le sacré (which arose out of a correspondence on these topics with Catherine Clément
), and was translated by Jane Marie Todd
as The Feminine and the Sacred, 2001);...
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Ada Leverson
AL
wrote to T. S. Eliot
(editor of The Criterion) offering him an essay on Wilde
, something on Proust
, and a short story, The Consultation.
Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch.
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Harold Pinter
Pinter's screenplay for Proust
's A la recherche du temps perdu (undertaken for his close cinema associate Joseph Losey
) was never made as a film. It was, however, published in 1972, and was later...
Timeline
1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...
1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...
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1946
Critic Erich Auerbach
published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...
By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...
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By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novelBonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
Texts
Proust, Marcel. À L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. Gallimard, 1919.
Proust, Marcel. Albertine Disparue. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925.
Proust, Marcel. By Way of Sainte-Beuve. Translator Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
Proust, Marcel. Du Côté de Chez Swann. 1913.
Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1923.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes. Gallimard, 1920.
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes II (Sodome et Gomorrhe I). Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921.
Proust, Marcel. Le Temps Retrouvé. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927.
Proust, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les Jours. 1896.
Proust, Marcel. Sodome et Gomorrhe. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922.