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Proust and the Arts
Christie Mcdonald
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Description for Proust and the Arts
hardcover. Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras. Editor(s): McDonald, Christie; Proulx, Francois. Num Pages: 303 pages, 53 b/w illus. 2 music examples. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632.
Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's relation to the arts. Going beyond the classic question of the models used by Proust for his fictional artists, the essays collected here explore how he learned from and integrated, in highly personal ways, the work of such creators as Wagner or Carpaccio. This volume reveals the breadth of Proust's engagement with varied art forms from different eras: from primitive arts to sound recordings, from medieval sculpture to Art Nouveau glassmaking, and from portrait photography to the private art ... Read more
Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's relation to the arts. Going beyond the classic question of the models used by Proust for his fictional artists, the essays collected here explore how he learned from and integrated, in highly personal ways, the work of such creators as Wagner or Carpaccio. This volume reveals the breadth of Proust's engagement with varied art forms from different eras: from primitive arts to sound recordings, from medieval sculpture to Art Nouveau glassmaking, and from portrait photography to the private art ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107103368
SKU
V9781107103368
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Ref
99-16
About Christie Mcdonald
Christie McDonald is Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard University. FranCois Proulx is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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