{"product_id":"roland-barthes-the-proust-variations-9781802077384","title":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism – literary or otherwise – can do. While it takes Roland Barthes’s encounters with Marcel Proust’s monumental masterpiece \u003ci\u003eÀ la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes’s writing on Proust’s work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969–1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews ‘Theoretically shrewd and brilliantly argued, this is the first monograph to offer a complete panorama of Barthes’s sustained engagement with the Proustian oeuvre. \u003ci\u003eRoland Barthes: The Proust Variations\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place among the best of Proust scholarship, continuing the legacy of the great Malcolm Bowie.' \u003cbr\u003eMarion Schmid, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e'Baldwin’s kaleidoscopic argument certainly comes to the fore in a monograph that is, in every sense of the word, brilliant.' \u003cbr\u003e Ian Ellison, \u003cem\u003e Modern Humanities Research Association \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book will appeal as much to those interested principally in Barthes as it will to those with a desire to understand his relationship with Proust ... \u003cem\u003eThe Proust Variations\u003c\/em\u003e meets Barthes on his own terms, admirably demonstrating how, by accepting the inconsistency at the heart of his writings on Proust, we might open up new possibilities for criticism.' \u003cbr\u003e Eleanor Lischka, \u003cem\u003eBarthes Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Objects\u003cbr\u003e2. Eros, Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e3. Music, Discourse\u003cbr\u003e4. Neutral, Nuance\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Insect Life\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470082183511,"sku":"9781802077384","price":29.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781802077384.jpg?v=1744897369","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roland-barthes-the-proust-variations-9781802077384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}