Proust and the Visual

Description

Proust and the Visual is an edited volume of essays written by Proustian specialists, concerned with a rich phenomenological category, the “visual” whose prominent role in the novel is at the heart of its modernity. The “visual” is defined as manifesting in the image not only space, but also time. The “visual” is considered as a category that delineates the conditions of possibility of all visibility and constitutes an integral part of both the progression of the narrator’s journey towards becoming a writer and of the unfolding of the novel itself.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• French

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783163144
• Langue: English

Extrait

PROUST AND THE VISUAL
S TUDIES IN V ISUAL C ULTURE
SERIES EDITORS
Margaret Topping
Queen s University, Belfast
Rachael Langford
Cardiff University
Giuliana Pieri
Royal Holloway, University of London
EDITORIAL BOARD
Mieke Bal
University of Amsterdam
Paul Cooke
University of Leeds
Anne Freadman
The University of Melbourne
Andrea Noble
University of Durham
Mar a Pilar Rodr guez
Universidad de Deusto
Eric Thau
University of Hawai i at Manoa
S TUDIES IN V ISUAL C ULTURE
PROUST AND THE VISUAL
edited by
Nathalie Aubert
The Contributors, 2012
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ISBN 978-0-7083-2548-3
e-ISBN 978-1-7831-6314-4
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Cover image: J. M. W. Turner, Stormy Sea with Dolphins (detail), oil on canvas, 1835-40. Tate, London Tate, London 2012.
Contents
Series editors preface
Note 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 c t de chez Swann
Adam Watt
3 Proust and the Analysis of Gesture
Patrick ffrench
4 Disentangling Modernism: A Common Drive Towards Aesthetics
Hugues Az rad
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 la recherche du temps perdu
ine Larkin
III
Other artists interpretations of la recherche du temps perdu
10 Mais dans les beaux livres, tous les contresens qu on fait sont beaux : Marcel Proust, Raoul Ruiz, Volker Schl ndorff and Harold Pinter
Vincent Ferr
11 In praise of iconoclasm: Reflections on the Improbable Illustration of la Recherche
Florence Godeau
12 Intermedial Proust: Harold Pinter and Di Trevis s Stage Adaptation of la recherche du temps perdu
Marion Schmid
Series editors preface
Studies in Visual Culture provides a forum for ground-breaking enquiry into visual-cultural production in its social, historical and cultural contexts. The series places particular emphasis on the exchanges, transactions and displacements that link Europe to wider global contexts across the visual-cultural field. The series seeks to promote critical engagement with visual media as ideological and cultural as well as aesthetic constructs, and foregrounds the relationship of visual cultures to other fields and discourses, including cultural history, literary production and criticism, philosophy, gender and sexuality research, journalism and media studies, migration and mobility studies, social sciences, and politics. The Studies in Visual Culture series thus focuses on exploring synergies and key debates between disciplines, concepts and theoretical approaches, and offers an exciting new arena for testing and extending disciplinary, theoretical and conceptual boundaries.
Note on abbrevations and quotations
References to la recherche du temps perdu are to the Pl iade edition in four volumes, edited by Jean-Yves Tadi (Paris: Gallimard, 1987-9). All references will be to this edition and will take the form: volume abbreviation, volume number, page number, for example ( S I 3). Most translations refer to C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Remembrance of Things Past (London: Penguin Books, 1981) - unless otherwise indicated by the author - and will take the form: volume number and page number, followed by the French text in a footnote. CSB refers to Contre Sainte-Beuve pr c d de Pastiches et m langes et suivi de Essais et articles , edited by Pierre Clarac and Yves Sandre (Paris: Gallimard, 1971). The translation used is Against Sainte-Beuve and other essays , trans. John Sturrock (London: Penguin, 1988).
Figures
Figure 1 Charles Gleyre, Le Soir or Les Illusions perdues (1843). Mus e d Orsay.
Figure 2 Harold Pinter and Di Trevis, Remembrance of Things Past (2000). Photograph Catherine Ashmore. By permission NT Archive/Catherine Ashmore.
Figure 3 Harold Pinter and Di Trevis, Remembrance of Things Past (2000). Photograph Catherine Ashmore. By permission NT Archive/Catherine Ashmore.
Contributors
Nathalie Aubert is Professor of French Literature at Oxford Brookes University. She has written a range of chapters and articles on European Modernism and avant-garde movements, with a special emphasis on the visual ; she has published two monographs on Proust (2001 and 2003) and her latest monograph Christian Dotremont la conqu te du monde par l image (2012) is dedicated to Belgian poet and painter Christian Dotremont.
Hugues Az rad , is Fellow in French at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the author of L Univers constell de Proust, Faulkner et Joyce (Lang, 2002) and coeditor with Peter Collier of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge Uuniversity Press, 2010). He has written articles on Reverdy, Proust, Glissant, Faulkner, Nerval and Joyce.
Thomas Baldwin is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. His publications include The Material Object in the Work of Marcel Proust (2005), The Flesh in the Text (co-edited with James Fowler and Shane Weller, 2007), The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze (2011), and Text and Image in Modern European Culture (co-edited with N. Grigorian and M. Rigaud-Drayton, 2012).
Vincent Ferr is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris Est (UPEC) and a member of Equipe Fabula. He works on the European and American novel of the twentieth century. His book L essai fictionnel chez Proust, Broch et Dos Passos is to be published in 2012 (Paris, Honor Champion). He has published and edited books on Tolkien and medievalism, co-edited volumes on Cycle et collection (2008), Litt rature, politique et Histoire au XXe si cle (2010) and on Proust dans la recherche comparatiste. Bilan et nouvelles perspectives (2010).
Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King s College London. He is the author of After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community (Oxford: Legenda, 2007), The Cut: Reading Bataille s Histoire de l il (Oxford: British Academy, 2000), The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) and of a range of chapters and articles on twentieth-century French literature, thought and film.
Florence Godeau is Professor in Comparative Literature at the Universit Lyon 3. She has published Les D sarrois du moi. la recherche du temps perdu de M. Proust et Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften de R. Musil , (T bingen, M. Niemeyer Vlg., Communicatio , 1995); R cits en souffrance. Essai sur Bartleby (Herman Melville), La m tamorphose et Le terrier (Franz Kafka), L Innommable (Samuel Beckett) (Paris, Kim , 2001) and Destin es f minines, l ombre du Naturalisme (Paris, Desjonqu res, 2008). She has co-edited (with W. Troubetzkoy) Fratries. Fr res et s urs dans la litt rature et les arts, de l Antiquit nos jours (Paris, Kim , 2003) and edited Et in fabula, pictor. Peintres- crivains au XXe si cle: des fables en marge des tableaux (Paris, Kim , 2006).
Karen Haddad is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universit Paris Ouest Nanterre. She is the author of L Illusion qui nous frappe. Proust et Dosto evski, une esth tique romanesque compar e (Champion, 1995), L Enfant qui a failli se taire. Essai sur l criture autobiographique (Champion, 2004). She has also co-edited Proust, l tranger (Crin, 2010).
Akane Kawakami is Senior Lecturer in French Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published articles on writers such as Michaux, Barthes, Guibert and Ernaux, and is the author of two monographs: A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano s Postmodern Fictions (2000) and Travellers Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 (2005).
ine Larkin is Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen, and the author of Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in la recherche du temps perdu (Legenda, 2011). Together with text/image relations, her research interests include literature and medicine, the literary representation of music and dance, and contemporary women s writing in French.
Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Chantal Akerman (2010), Proust dans la d cadence (2008), Proust at the Movies (2005, co-authored with Martine Beugnet) and Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998). Together with Nigel Harkness she has co-edited Au seuil de la modernit : Proust, Literature and the Arts. Essays in Memory of Richard Bales (2011).
Sarah Tribout-Joseph is Lecturer in French at the University of Edinburgh. She has published a book entitled Proust and Joyce in Dialogue (2008) as well as several articles on Proust.
Adam Watt is Associate Professor of French at the University of Exeter. He i