Mourning and Creativity in Proust (eBook)
XIX, 249 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-60073-8 (ISBN)
This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novel's final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tribute to those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Proust's novel captivating for readers since its publication.
Anna Magdalena Elsner is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of French and the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King's College London, UK. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK.
This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novel's final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tributeto those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Proust's novel captivating for readers since its publication.
Anna Magdalena Elsner is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of French and the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London, UK. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Introduction: Melancholia's AfterlivesChapter 1: Time of death: AlterityChapter 2: Mourning and the Uncanny SpaceChapter 3: The Ethics of CreationEpilogue: Fidelity to the Intermittences
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.3.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism | Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism |
Zusatzinfo | XIX, 249 p. 4 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Creativity • ethics • Europe • Fiction • History of Literature • Literature • Marcel Proust • Medicine • Nineteenth century • Psychoanalysis • Psychology |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-60073-X / 113760073X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-60073-8 / 9781137600738 |
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