Femmes et Literature
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Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist’s relation to the arts. Going beyond the classic question of the models used by Proust for his fictional artists, the essays collected here explore how he learned from and integrated in highly personal ways the work of such innovators as Wagner or Carpaccio. This volume reveals the breadth of Proust’s engagement with varied art forms from different eras: from “primitive” arts to sound recordings, from medieval sculpture to Art Nouveau glassmaking, from portrait photography to the private art of doodling. Chapters bring into focus issues of perception and detail in examining how Proust encountered and responded to works of art, and attend to the ways art shaped his complex relation- ship to identity, sexuality, humor, and the craft of writing.
Christie McDonald and François Proulx
ISBN: 978 1 107 10336 8
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Note on the text
Introduction
Christie McDonald and François Proulx
part i art’s way
2 Primitives and primitive arts in the Recherche Nathalie Mauriac Dyer 3 “Some dear or sad fantasy”: faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval
4 I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust’s writing
Christie McDonald
part ii apprenticing and integrating
5 Art and craft in Marcel Proust’s life and work Virginie Greene
6 “Those blessed days”: Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins
7 “Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagne ́rienne”: musical resonance in Proust’s Recherche
John Hamilton
part iii expanding the arts
8 Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa
9 Swann’s gift, Odette’s face: photography, money, and desire in A` la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac
10 Oriane’s fashionable art Caroline Weber
11 Glass and clay: Proust and Galle ́ Elaine Scarry
part iv perceiving and transforming
12 Proust’s eye Fran ̧coise Leriche
13 Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri
14 Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence
part v creative identities
15 Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson
16 Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels
17 “Irregular” kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les Plaisirs et les Jours
Fran ̧cois Proulx
18 The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon
Bibliography Index