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Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Mothers and sons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037336638
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:890494900
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : French letters
ISBN : LCCN:57014237
Author : George D. Painter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0897607163
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Helen Marx Books
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1885586450
Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.
Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : PSU:000029321193
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191622823
Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. It was treated with acupuncture and Ayurveda. As Western medicine developed, the nature of asthma became clearer, and its basis in the lungs recognized. But cultural perceptions of the disease shifted too. By the 18th century, with recognition that the disease was centred on the lungs, the idea of environmental triggers such as dust and smoke first became recognized. And with that, asthma also became identified as a disease of artisans. Things changed again in the 19th century, as medical understanding grew with the advent of the stethoscope and new techniques such as percussion of the chest. New treatments included the promotion of mountain spas, for asthma now rose in social status, and became associated with the upper classes and the literati. For Marcel Proust and Charles Dickens, asthma shaped their lives and their creativity. From early in the 20th century, the idea of asthma as an allergic disease became established, and the search for environmental causes was on. Hay fever was closely linked, and pharmaceutical companies began to make antihistamines, anti-inflammatories and bronchodilators. Asthma sufferers were warned to beware of pets, simplify their furnishings, and take holidays by the sea far from pollens. But a newly emerging concept was that attacks could be triggered by stress and psychological factors. With musicians such as Schoenberg and Berg as celebrity sufferers, the idea of asthma as an élite disease persisted. In recent years, attitudes have changed again, as incidences of asthma grew dramatically across the world, especially among the young. The disease has now become closely linked to modern lifestyles and the many products of civilization. The battle against house-dust mites began, and whole new lines of anti-allergenic products and foods were launched - asthma has proved highly lucrative over the years. But the disease has remained fashionable, even becoming the theme of several pop songs. Asthma: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual volume an expert historian of medicine tells the story of a particular disease or condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself.
Author : William C. Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300191790
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.
Author : Douglas W. Alden,Richard A. Brooks
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815622058
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107512146
This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, Á la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and to those of the great French and European traditions of which he is now so centrally a part. There is vivid exploration of Proust's reading; his attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues; his relation to journalism, religion, sexuality, science and travel, and how these figure in the Recherche. The volume closes with a comprehensive survey of Proust's critical reception, from reviews during his lifetime to the present day, including assessments of Proust in translation and the broader assimilation of his work into twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780231327
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent fourteen years creating In Search of Lost Time, his seven-volume magnum opus. He died when it was only half in print, unable to see it become one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Over eighty years later, the work still garners extraordinary levels of critical attention, and Proust’s habits, health, and sexual preferences still keep commentators and fans occupied. In this concise biography, Adam Watt explores the life of a writer whose every experience was stored, dissected, and redeployed within a vast fictional work. After considering Proust’s earlier years of personal and aesthetic experiment, Watt provides an engaging account of two intertwined processes taking place against the vibrant backdrop of Belle Époque Paris and World War I: the progress of In Search of Lost Time and the simultaneous decline of its author. He demonstrates how Proust’s own periods of ill health and isolation reflected his narrator’s thoughts on desire, love, and loss, as well as his contemplation of beauty, memory, aging, and the possibility of happiness. Drawing on the author’s immense correspondence, the accounts of his contemporaries, and the insights of recent scholarship, Marcel Proust offers a rewarding new portrait of the novelist once described as “the most complicated man in Paris.”
Author : Marilyn M. Sachs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739181638
For a century now, scholars have searched for the “source” of Marcel Proust’s startlingly innovative novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or Paul Sollier. Others have referenced the novels of Henry James. But no one has focused on the more significant influence of the writings of Henry’s older brother, the psychologist and Harvard professor William James. A close comparison reveals the degree to which Proust’s novel stems from James’s psychological and philosophical theories. William James was a prominent member of the scientific, medical and philosophical communities in Proust’s Paris and was close friends with two men well known to Proust. His works were translated into French and reviewed in French journals and newspapers. This book discloses how Proust likely became familiar with William James and illustrates how James’s writings were key to Proust’s ability to craft the book he had been trying to write, extending even to his use of similar language and imagery and a narrative schema that arguably mimics James’s descriptions of consciousness, perception, and memory. Proust’s hero assiduously explores the vague, uncertain, relational aspects of experience, the trials and comforts of habit, the salvational potential of memory, the “moral” aspects of personal history teeming with impression and desire—these are the truths of human psychology and behavior theorized by William James and made fictional flesh in Proust’s rendition of lived experience.
Author : Marcel Proust,Terence Kilmartin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002086184
In 1904, while still working on his translations of Ruskin, Marcel Proust wrote to Maurice Barr(('e))s "I still have two Ruskin's to do, and after that I shall try to translate my own poor soul, if it doesn't die in the meantime." Within a few years Proust would begin this translation of his "own poor soul"--the monumental Remembrance of Things Past, one of the great literary works of the 20th century. In this volume of Proust's collected letters the reader is carried inside this pivotal moment in a great writer's life. In a letter to Louis d'Albufera he lists the projects he has in hand: "a study on the nobility, a Parisian novel, an essay on Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert, an essay on Women, an essay on Pederasty (not easy to publish), a study on stained-glass windows, a study on tombstones, a study on the novel"--all subjects that eventually found their way into Remembrance of Things Past. The letters are intriguing for what they say about the work, but they also offer an intimate portrait of the man--the sometime invalid recluse, sometime socialite. This long-awaited volume will be welcomed by scholars and general readers alike. The letters offer a special insight into the man and his art during a crucial period, and they are as delightful to read--as beautifully crafted, witty and poignant--as his fiction.
Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101202821
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night, but also the darling of Parisian salons, the grasper after honors, and the closeted homosexual-a subject this book is the first to explore openly. From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst, here is a moving portrait to be treasured by anyone looking for an introduction to this literary icon.
Author : Mina Kirstein Curtiss
Publisher : Helen Marx Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1885586361
This wonderfully spontaneous evocation of a glamorous Proustian world reads like a detective story.