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Mourning and creativity in Proust

Elsner, Anna Magdalena.

Mourning and creativity in Proust

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mourning and creativity in Proustby Anna Magdalena Elsner.
Author:	Elsner, Anna Magdalena.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017.
Description:	xix, 249 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Bereavement in literature.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60073-8
ISBN:	9781137600738$q(electronic bk.)

Mourning and creativity in Proust
Elsner, Anna Magdalena.

Mourning and creativity in Proust[electronic resource] /by Anna Magdalena Elsner. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017. - xix, 249 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism. - Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism..

Introduction: Melancholia's Afterlives -- Chapter 1: Time of death: Alterity -- Chapter 2: Mourning and the Uncanny Space -- Chapter 3: The Ethics of Creation -- Epilogue: Fidelity to the Intermittences.

This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novel's final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tribute to those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Proust's novel captivating for readers since its publication.

ISBN: 9781137600738$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-60073-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

393097
Proust, Marcel,
1871-1922--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

775958
Bereavement in literature.

LC Class. No.: PQ2631.R63

Dewey Class. No.: 843.914

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