The Gardens of Desire - Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (Hardcover, New)

The Gardens of desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Shedding new light on the origins of the creative impulse in general, and on the psychological origins of the Recherche in particular, the book illuminates the hidden associations between matericidal, suicidal, sadistic, masochistic, homoerotic, and creative impulses as manifested in Proust's work. The book moves beyond traditional Feudian readings of Proust to consider the theories of Otto Rank, Jacques Derrida, and others, and provides provocative readings of the "privileged moments" that comprise many of the work's "critical cruxes," as well as a thought-provoking rereading of the novel's ending. Both elegant and accessible, this book boldly explores the violence of desire as it relates not only to Proust's narrator, but also to Proustian criticism itself, with its own violent desire to appropriate the essence of Proust's masterpiece.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	July 2004
Authors:	Stephen Gilbert Brown
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	253
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6113-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7914-6113-0
Barcode:	9780791461136

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