Proust and the Arts

Christie McDonald is Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard University. FranÇois Proulx is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Art's Way: 2. Primitives and primitive arts in the Recherche Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; 3. 'Some dear or sad fantasy': faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval; 4. I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust's writing Christie McDonald; Part II. Apprenticing and Integrating: 5. Art and craft in Marcel Proust's life and work Virginie Greene; 6. 'Those blessed days': Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins; 7. 'Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne': musical resonance in Proust's Recherche John Hamilton; Part III. Expanding the Arts: 8. Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa; 9. Swann's gift, Odette's face: photography, money and desire in À la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac; 10. Oriane's artful fashions Caroline Weber; 11. Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé Elaine Scarry; Part IV. Perceiving and Transforming: 12. Proust's eye Françoise Leriche; 13. Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri; 14. Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence; Part V. Creative Identities: 15. Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson; 16. Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels; 17. 'Irregular' kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les plaisirs et les jours François Proulx; 18. The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon; Bibliography.

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