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Beckett's Proust Deleuze's Proust

✍ Scribed by Mary Bryden, Margaret Topping

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
265
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 18
Part I: Reading Encounters......Page 28
1 The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze)......Page 30
2 The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiotics and Proust......Page 43
3 Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze......Page 56
4 Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2......Page 64
5 Proust/Deleuze: Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory?......Page 75
6 Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature......Page 90
Part II: Visual, Cinematic and Sonic Encounters......Page 104
7 Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the 'Secret Pressures of the Work of Art' in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche......Page 106
8 Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton......Page 121
9 'Staring Sightlessly': Proust's Presence in Beckett's Absence......Page 134
10 Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett......Page 145
11 The Long and the Short of it… Moving Images in Proust and Beckett......Page 153
12 The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust......Page 172
Part III: Bodily Encounters......Page 186
13 Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett......Page 188
14 Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze's Proust......Page 200
15 Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la recherche du temps perdu......Page 216
16 Murphy's Madeleine......Page 232
Epilogue: An Imaginary Encounter between Proust, Beckett and Deleuze......Page 244
17 … Proust… Beckett… Deleuze…: a Quad Regained......Page 246
References......Page 254
B......Page 261
D......Page 262
L......Page 263
S......Page 264
Z......Page 265

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