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I approach this motif from a variety of perspectives, studying Gilbert Durand's work on the imagination, Wendy Faris's new book on Labyrinths of Language and the mythical labyrinths of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The variety of perspectives used in my study constitutes my attempt to respond to the great complexity of the Proustian text. A quotation from Ruskin which traces the connections between the labyrinths of classical antiquity and the Gothic cathedrals of medieval catholicism serves as an epigraph for my first chapter; on a wider scale however this quotation provides an Ariadne's thread for the four episodes under examination. Like Mademoiselle de Saint-Loup at the end of the novel, each of these episodes operates as a nodal point, a \"\"carrefour\"\" in the labyrinthine text; each episode draws upon religous or mythical iconography, culminating in the subterreanean metropolitan scenes during the war, related by Proust to ancient Pompey and medieval burial.\"","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:43:13Z (GMT). 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