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Signs of aristocracy in "A la recherche du temps perdu" :Proust and the salon from Mme de Rambouillet to Mme de Guermantes (Marcel Proust, France).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Signs of aristocracy in "A la recherche du temps perdu" :
Reminder of title:	Proust and the salon from Mme de Rambouillet to Mme de Guermantes (Marcel Proust, France).
Author:	Chesney, Duncan Donald McColl.
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Directors: Peter Brooks; Pericles Lewis.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3674.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109381
ISBN:	0496569236

Signs of aristocracy in "A la recherche du temps perdu" :Proust and the salon from Mme de Rambouillet to Mme de Guermantes (Marcel Proust, France).
Chesney, Duncan Donald McColl.

Signs of aristocracy in "A la recherche du temps perdu" :Proust and the salon from Mme de Rambouillet to Mme de Guermantes (Marcel Proust, France). [electronic resource] - 224 p.

Directors: Peter Brooks; Pericles Lewis.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2003.

The dissertation stages a new reading of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu by focusing on the importance of aristocracy in the narrator's apprenticeship to the sign systems whose mastery (according to the model described by Gilles Deleuze in Proust et les signes) leads to the commencement of his artistic project. A survey of filmic treatments of Proust (realized or unrealized) underscores the importance of the neglected role the aristocrats play in the game of distinction that constitutes one aspect of the Search [Preface]. Distinction---following Pierre Bourdieu---is defined as an evaluative recognition of difference and its manifestation in signs. It is used as a conceptual tool for subsuming the various systems of difference---Jewishness, homosexuality, nobility, artistic talent---under one theoretical model in order to bring out the similarities in the systems as they function in Proust's book. Nobility, however, is the preeminent code of distinction in its relation to power, to (cultural) capital, and to history. Depth is given to this conception of distinction and the discussion of the aristocracy through a spatialization: the salon. The salon is a major institution in the history of French culture and society in relation to both aristocracy and art. A short history of the salon, from its origins in the early seventeenth century and its heyday during the Enlightenment, to its ideological reinvention in the nineteenth century, serves to contextualize an understanding of its role in Proust's novel, especially with respect to class and art [Chapters 1--3]. The young Proust's experience of late exemplars in the salon-aristocratic tradition, coupled with his nascent homosexuality and artistic inclinations, teach him lessons in difference and distinction that inform the structure and meaning of his novel [Chapter 4]. Finally, the aristocrats, in their complex codes of comportment and conversation as well as in their chateaux and estates, are shown to be transcendent links to earlier epochs of history in an analogy with the famous epiphanic, objective elicitors of lost time [Chapter 5]. The enabling role of Proust's fascination with aristocracy is then linked to a Modernist critique of bourgeois society.

ISBN: 0496569236Subjects--Topical Terms:

178247
Literature, Comparative.

Signs of aristocracy in "A la recherche du temps perdu" :Proust and the salon from Mme de Rambouillet to Mme de Guermantes (Marcel Proust, France).
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