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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen

Venkatesh, VidyaUniversity of Cambridge2023

This thesis 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 …

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