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...Reinhard Kuhn Richard Terdiman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Romanic Studies, Second Series, 25, 1976. xvi + 265 pp. $12.50. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 LEON 1’. I)ICKINSON 393 tone, yet one surpasses...

... it is constructed. Richard Terdiman’s fundamental aesthetic premise is that forms of nar- ration are reflections of societal evolution. This view, of course, is in direct contradiction to the Proustian belief that a novel is an autonomous entity, a nonreferential system. The inherent conflict between...

... French literature such as Ross Chambers, Christopher Prendergast, and Richard Terdiman explored these questions in the 1980s and 1990s, but since then the field has largely favored cultural history approaches (a reengagement with the archives, a turn to reading the popular press) or genetic criticism. 3...

... is that of any discussion of the philo- sophical basis for the pessimism that Terdiman rightly sees as pervading the nineteenth century and as deeply influencing Proust and his successors. No mention is even made of Schopenhauer, whose radical pessimism enjoyed as much of a vogue a century ago as did...

...). That commodities violate this tenet is disconcerting, Terdiman suggests, because Terdiman, Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, igg3), 12. 40 MLQI March iggg normally objects have an intimate...

... appear illuminated, metaphori- cally, by the lighthouse’s repetitive strobe. A journey inward begins with a gaze outward; memory is thus grounded in an experience that binds the self to the outside world. Creative thought and phrasing emerge 2  Richard Terdiman first notes the relationship...

... of nineteenth-­century French literature have been particularly interested in the social relations of literary communication. See Richard Terdiman, Discourse/ Counter-discourse:­ The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-­Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985...