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.

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Textual Production Catherine Carswell
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, 1st ed., Secker and Warburg, 1950, p. ix - xxi.
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Textual Production 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.
Textual Production 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);...
Textual Production Edith Wharton
EW published a volume of critical essays entitled The Writing of Fiction; its reading of Proust has been particularly praised.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1240 (22 October 1925): 696
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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, 1974.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pamela Hansford Johnson
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Natalie Clifford Barney
The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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, 1961.
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An ecstatic state is one in which...

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