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Book SynopsisReveals some of Marcel Proust's less obvious creative sources and considers his influence on later art forms. This book explores Proust's novel not only in light of such famous passages as those of the madeleine and the good-night kiss, but also on the basis of seemingly small details that ultimately take us in unexpected directions.
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Proust and Home (r): An Avuncular Intertext, pg. 17*CHAPTER 2. T(r)yptext: Proust, Mallarme, Racine, pg. 38*CHAPTER 3. Proust, Bergson, and Zeno, or, How Not to Reach One's End, pg. 65*CHAPTER 4. Fiction and Film: Proust's Vertigo and Hitchcock's Vertigo, pg. 89*CHAPTER 5. Proust and Wagner: The Climb to the Octave Above, or, The Scale of Love (and Death), pg. 103*CHAPTER 6. Mourning a Melancholic: Proust and Freud on the Death of a Loved One, pg. 127*NOTES, pg. 147*INDEX, pg. 161
