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Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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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.
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