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Considered one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was a pillar of modernist writing, as illustrated in his massive seven-volume novel, A la recherche du temps perdu.听 Witness to a changing world forged in the defeat of 1870, the Dreyfus Affair, and World War I, Proust catalogued the move from a traditional nineteenth-century, still grounded in aristocratic and upper-middle-class models, to a more democratic, republican society.听 In his novel, he provided analyses of social structures, family life, Parisian society, social movement, sexualities, gender roles, religion, citizenship, politics, science, and the arts. This module will serve as an introduction to Proust's work and also an introduction to the society in which he lived and to the other writers of his time in Europe. We will read portions of the "Recherche" and works by Woolf, Gide, Colette, Mann, and Svevo.听

Aims and Learning Outcomes:听

The course is intended to give students a range of analytical tools to approach European literature at the beginning of the 20th Century, such as historical, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and cultural approaches. The course aims to encourage students to think of the challenges of dealing not only with Proust鈥檚 massive novel (one million words over seven volumes) but also with the imbricated context of European literary culture in the Belle 茅poque听

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to demonstrate:听

鈥� critical analysis skills related to European novels of the beginning of the 20th Century;听

鈥� the ability to compare the different literary and cultural contexts of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK;听

鈥� an advanced ability to use scholarly sources;听

鈥� the capacity to develop questions related to interdisciplinary research.听

Suggested Reading:听

Primary Texts (in English and in original languages)听

Proust, (Du c么t茅 de chez Swann听

A l鈥檕mbre des jeunes filles en fleur听

La Prisonni猫re听

Le temps retrouv茅) in In Search of Lost Time, Ed. Christopher Prendergast, London: Penguin, 2003. and A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris鈥�: Gallimard (various editions).听

Colette, Ch茅ri. London: Vintage Classics (2001).听

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice. London: Vintage Classics (2001).听

Andr茅 Gide, Les Faux-Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters). London鈥�: Penguin Modern Classics, 1990).听

Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno鈥檚 Conscience). London鈥�: Penguin Classics, 2019.听

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. London: Vintage Classics Woolf Series, 2016.听

Secondary works听

Bal, Mieke. The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually. Stanford鈥�: Stanford UP,听听

听听 1997.听

Bataille, Georges. 芦鈥疨roust鈥�禄 in La Litt茅rature et le mal. Paris鈥�: Gallimard, 1957.听

Barthes, Roland.听 鈥淧roust et les noms鈥� in Le degr茅 z茅ro de l鈥櫭ヽriture. Paris鈥�: Seuil,听听

听听 1972听听

Bersani, Leo. Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art. New York: Oxford听听听听听听听

听听 University Press, 1965听

Beugnet, Martine and Marion Schmidt. Proust at the Movies. London: Ashgate, 2005.听听

Blanchot, Maurice. Le livre 脿 venir. Paris: Gallimard, 1959.听

Bowie, Malcolm. Freud, Proust, and Lacan. Cambridge鈥�: Cambridge University Press,听听

听听 1987.听

---. Proust among the Stars. New York鈥�: Columbia University Press, 1998.听

Bray, Patrick M. The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French听听

听听 Fiction. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, January 2013.听

---. 鈥淔orgetting the Madeleine: Proust and the Neurosciences.鈥� In Literature,听听

听听听 Neurology, and Neuroscience: History and Modern Perspectives. Eds. Anne Stiles,听听

听听 Stanley Finger, and Fran莽ois Boller. Progress in Brain Research Vol 205,听听

听听 Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013.听

---. 鈥淭he 鈥楧ebris of Experience鈥�: the Cinema of Marcel Proust and Raoul Ruiz.鈥澨�听

听听 Romanic Review, 101:3 (May 2010) 469-484 (Appeared winter 2012).听听

---. 鈥淒eleuze鈥檚 Proust et les signes鈥� Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism,听听

听听 edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison. London: Bloomsbury,听听

听听 2014, 11-20.听

Carter, William C. The Proustian Quest. New York鈥�: New York University Press, 1992.听

Collier, Peter. Proust and Venice. Cambridge鈥�: Cambridge University Press, 1989.听

Compagnon, Antoine. Proust between Two Centuries (Goodkin, R., Trans.). New York:听听听

听听 Columbia University Press, 1992.听

---. La 鈥楻echerche du temps perdu鈥� de Marcel Proust in Nora, P. (Ed.), Lieux de m茅moire,听听

听听 vol. 3. Gallimard, 3835-3869. (Original work published 1992).听

Debray-Genette, Raymonde, ed. Essais de critiques g茅n茅tiques. Paris鈥�: Flammarion,听听

听听 1979.听

Deleuze, Gilles.听 Proust et les signes.听 Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1964.听

DeMan, Paul. 芦鈥疪eading (Proust)鈥�禄, Allegories of Reading. New Haven鈥�: Yale University听听

听听 Press, 1979.听

Descombes, Vincent. Proust. Philosophie du roman. Paris鈥�: Minuit, 1987.听

Doubrovsky, Serge. La Place de la madeleine. Paris鈥�: Mercure de France, 1974.听

Ellison, David. Three Readings of Proust. Baltimore鈥�: Johns Hopkins University Press,听听

听听 1984.听

Ender, Evelyn, Architexts of Memory. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2005.听

Genette, G茅rard. Figures I (notamment, 芦鈥疨roust Palimpseste鈥�禄, 芦鈥疎space et langage鈥�禄.听听听

听听 Paris: 脡ditions du Seuil, 1966听

---. Figures II (芦鈥疨roust et le langage indirect鈥�禄).听 Paris: Seuil, 1969听

---. Figures III (芦鈥疢茅tonymie chez Proust鈥�禄, 芦鈥疍iscours du r茅cit鈥�禄).听 Paris鈥�: Seuil, 1972.听

Gray, Margaret. Postmodern Proust. Philadelphia鈥�: University of Pennsylvania Press,听听

听听 1992.听听

Henry, Anne. Marcel Proust鈥�: Th茅ories pour une esth茅tique. Paris鈥�: Klincksieck, 1981.听

Kleeblatt, Norman, ed. The Dreyfus Affair鈥�: Art, Truth, and Justice. Berkeley鈥�: University听听

听听 of California Press, 1987.听

Kristeva, Julia. Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature.听 Translated by听听听听听

听听 Ross Guberman.听 New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.听听听

Kritzman, Lawrence D.听 鈥淏arthes鈥檚 Way: Un Amour de Proust.鈥澨� The Yale Journal of听听

听听 Criticism.听 14.2. 2001, 535-543.听听听听

Landy, Joshua. 鈥淟es Moi en Moi 鈥�: The Proustian Self in Philosophical Perspective.鈥澨�听听

听听 New Literary History 2001, 32: 91 鈥�132.听

Lucey, Michael, Gide鈥檚 Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing, Oxford University Press,听听

听听 1995, chapter 4.听 pp. 108-142.听听

---. Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide and Proust, Duke听听

听听 University Press, 2006.听

McDonald, Christie.听 The Proustian Fabric: Associations of Memory.听 Lincoln:听听听

听听 University of Nebraska Press, 1991.听

Mehlman, Jeffrey. A Structural Study of Autobiography: Proustm Sartre, Leiris, L茅vi-听

听听 Strauss. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.听

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. Proust musicien. Paris鈥�: Christian Bourgois, 1984.听

Poulet, Georges. L鈥檈space proustien.听 Paris: Gallimard, 1963.听

Proust, Marcel. A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris鈥�: Gallimard, Biblioth猫que de la听听听

听听 Pl茅iade, 4 vols., 1987-89.听

---. Contre Sainte-Beuve. Ed. bernard de Fallois. Paris鈥�: Gallimard, 1954. Rev. Ed. Pierre听听听

听听 Clarac, 1971.听

Richard, Jean-Pierre. Proust et le monde sensible. Paris鈥�: Seuil, 1974.听

Rushworth, Jennifer. Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.听

Ric艙ur, Paul. Temps et r茅cit II. La configuration dans le r茅cit de fiction. Paris鈥�: Seuil,听听

听听 1984.听听听

Shattuck, Roger. Proust鈥檚 Binocular鈥檚: A Study of Memory, Tine, and Recognition in A听听听

听听 la recherche du temps perdu.听 New York: Random House, 1963听

Tadi茅, Jean-Yves. Proust et le roman. Essai sur les forms et techniques du roman dans A听听

听听 la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: Gallimard, 1971.听听

Terdiman, Richard. Present, Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1993.听

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