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Jean Santeuil and Marcel Proust : a revaluation
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of General Engineering, 1953.
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Italy in the Life and Works of Marcel Proust
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A adolescência escrita em Marcel Proust, Clarice Lispector e Anne Hérbert
… têm diferenças marcantes), em três autores: Marcel Proust, Clarice Lispector e Anne Hébert. E, por fim, concluiremos traçando um paralelo entre os personagens ficcionais e os reais no que se refere aos valores que projetam a imagem da adolescência nos seus universos respectivos. Acreditando …
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The Structural Role of Idolatry in The Works of Marcel Proust
… how the theme of idolatry is integrated into Proust's works from the earliest texts through the major novel and (2) to discover and explain how it acquires structural importance as proust matures as a writer. Investigated first of all is Proust's evolution from being only vaguely, if at all, …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… chapters on the transmedia aesthetics of Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, and Peter Greenaway assess the uses to which evolutionary theory has been put in works that combine and transform multiple media forms. By identifying a recurrent set of anxieties across these works, many of which …
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Analisi critico-comparativa delle traduzioni italiane di Un amour de Swann di Marcel Proust
… traduzioni italiane di Un amour de Swann di Marcel Proust implica necessariamente un attento esame dello stile esemplare di un autore, che ha modificato, in larga misura, la concezione del romanzo e della scrittura stessa; in secondo luogo significa considerare l’altrettanto complesso lavorio …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… proposes a new way to encounter the fiction of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen through the lens of talk. I use the term ‘talk’ to define and theorize a liminal category of expression in these texts, vacillating between the elevated, ineffable significance associated with the art of …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… prose: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) (1913-1927), and Andrei Bitov’s Pushkin House (Pushkinskii dom) (1978). This study expands Richard Moran’s observations on the role of estrangement in the quest for …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… mythmaking by using, as primary examples, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Johannes V. Jensen's Myths , Virginia Woolf's novels To The Lighthouse and The Waves, and the work of Jorge Luis Borges. My dissertation focuses neither on uncovering mythical allusions, which would …
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Writing and directing the short film "Before it's gone".
… (Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze), literary (Marcel Proust, Patrick Modiano), and filmic (Orson Welles, Alain Resnais) influences that informed the film. As an academic turned filmmaker, this thesis also chronicles my first forays into filmmaking, as well as the lessons learned throughout the …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… by, among others, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, and, especially, James Joyce, Kerouac used the influence of his predecessors to formulate his own style of writing-spontaneous prose. The critics who label Kerouac as a cultural icon akin to James Dean fail to see …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… and communication. In his life and work, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) embodied the duality of philosophy of communication. Proust recognized the false grandeur behind the gold gilding of the Belle Epoque in nineteenth-century France, and reframed progress as a series of fits and starts, where …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… and why we are moved by a work of art. Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov all sought to transform the art of the novel to convey the complexities of temporal experience and the vulnerability of mortal life. Nevertheless, their works have persistently been read in terms …
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Marking Time: Investigating drawing as a performative process for recording temporal presence and recalling memory through the line, the fold and repetition
… through Henri Bergson (habit and pure) and Marcel Proust(voluntary and involuntary), provided the context for examining drawing's memorial potency along a past-present-future continuum. Deleuze's ontology provided a reflective and reflecive methodology for addressing my own work alongside …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
… society. With a focus on Blanche’s depictions of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and the Comtesse de Castiglione (1837-1899), the thesis considers Blanche’s ‘neurasthenic portraits’ in relation to discourses on modern psychiatry, modernity, and modern art, drawing attention to how they enrich our …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… explores how four writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – registered shock experiences of the microscopic in prose fiction. Focusing on microscopes and the unfamiliar microworlds they reveal, I illustrate ways in which optical instruments had the capacity …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
… influence of Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and Marcel Proust resulted in a novel that solicits a reader oscillating between the genre pleasures of modernism and realism."
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Fiendish Dreams - Reverse Engineering Modern Architecture
… explored by Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust, who linked the mechanisms employed by the unconscious in dreaming to those at play in wit. Architectural drawing—seen through McCay's cartoons and early animations—has a kind of 'gastronomical' alchemy that inadvertently became a …
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