... subroutines as self-interested beings allows Proust to apply the principles of biological selection to these psychological entities, imagining the mind as an ecosystem in which great personal upheavals—for instance, Marcel's loss of Albertine—figure as extinction events that wipe out large populations...

... and energized modernist aesthetics. Moving with facility between Ireland (James Joyce, Seán Ó Ríordáin), Italy (Pier Paolo Pasolini), and France ( Marcel Proust ), McCrea examines the seemingly incongruous parallel between the modernist love of old dialects and the modernist desire to invent new languages. He...

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... the effects they create” (54). An example of an embedded assumption, she observes, would be Marcel Proust's belief that social relations are fundamentally analogical; an example of a created effect would be the strange, portentous atmosphere in which Henry James's late fiction takes place. Zhang devotes...

... . The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels . New York : Norton , 2006 . Proust Marcel . Du côté de chez Swann . Paris : Gallimard , 1988 . Less than Kin, More than Kind BARRY McCREA, In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle...

... objects, from canonical modernist works to contemporary novels and films to the It Gets Better Project. The list of authors covered is impressive. Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, William James, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison all have substantial...

.... For example, one requires the necessary cultural capital to use the term "tante," after Balzac; Robert de Montesquiou had it in spades, but that "strange little chap" Marcel Proust did not. Discussing same-sex sexualities is therefore codified (both historically and today), a highly ritualized...

... of philosophy, in the second monograph Hägglund turns to literature, to the novels of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov, in order to formalize his earlier thesis. The burden of an a priori lack is displaced from negative theology onto the account of desire offered in the works...

... experiences. As a result, Lewis is able to chart a "mystical relationship" between artist-hero and his people in Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and Gabriele d'hunzio. This relationship is all the more elemental because, for all four, national identity is not merely belonging to a culture...

... in which Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf enjoin attentiveness to their novels' physical traits as a part of the work of interpretation. For Lurz, this corporeal substrate is always in conversation with the reader's own body, and the thrust of the conversation is always that the book...

... just right: after all, what is any realism if not a Dutch painting with a Raphael head in the middle of it? In turning from the critics to the novelists, Yeazell trades the populous hubbub of her early pages for a series of chapter-long cameos: Balzac, Eliot, Hardy, Marcel Proust...

... could have listed—returns when Marcel Proust's praise of Gustave Flaubert for his “gaps between scenes” (232) becomes the lead-in to Keaton's uncomprehending stares past the world surrounding him. I could not see how these belong together. In a brief conclusion, as well as in earlier moments, Plotz...

... eccentric for their efforts at dethroning his majesty the ego: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko , Françoise de Graffigny's Letters of a Peruvian Woman , Isabelle de Charrière's Letters of Mistress Henley , Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure , and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time...

... and the modernist novelist Marcel Proust because their formally innovative work revealed more about the social contradictions than did popular culture, for which he had much contempt. The texts that Miller deals with reveal all kinds of social contradictions, including the decentering and fracturing...

.... Bernard comments on a scene that takes place in Père Lachaise, where the narrator observes the proximity of the gravesites of the French Marcel Proust and the Palestinian Mahmoud al-Hamshari. This proximity, Bernard argues, shows that the history of Israel/Palestine is the history of one place. The point...

... be, Wasser remains open to the charge of a certain critical naïveté. In reading all of this, I sometimes found myself wishing Wasser had dwelled a little longer with the sheer intransigence of the literary textures that she marshals to her cause; hyperbole in Marcel Proust and truth and expressivity...

... that is know- able and introspective. We inherited this idea from texts such as Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction” (1884), Marcel Proust’s Contre Sainte-Beuve (1896), and Vir- ginia Woolf’s “Modern Fiction” (1919). “Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall...

... European tradition running from the bildungsro- man of Goethe up through the intensifying ‘‘problematization’’ of the Bildung structure in the works of (for them) contemporary authors such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Alfred Do¨blin, Marcel Proust, Andre´ Gide, and Louis-Ferdinand Ce´line. Later...

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... consequence of this is a steering away of Beckett from the orbit of Marcel Proust, and especially James Joyce, toward that of the author of Les caves du Vatican . Of course, Beckett's general opposition to what he describes as “a literature of notations” devoted to the “offal of experience” (6) is explicit...