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1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
<Span><span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern or Why Style Matters </span><span>argues against the traditional critical view that minimizes Proust's practice of pastiche - the imitation of a writer's style -and that considers it a simple exercise of mastering the predecessor. Instead, this work establishes pastiche as a powerful, ubiquitous practice central to Proust's entire oeuvre. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span></span> |
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Proust in school -- Parody and pastiche in nineteenth-century French literature -- Why Proust's pastiches are neither parodic, nor a proof of mastery over the predecessor -- What can pastiche do? -- Pastiche as politically and economically performative in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Proust's Goncourt pastiche and the postmodern -- Literary pastiche since Proust -- Pastiche Proustian, postmodern, and purloined in the cinema, or, Where's the pastiche in French film? -- Postmodern pastiche in the films of Rohmer and Gans. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Imitation in literature.
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Imitation in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- France.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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France. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Proust, pastiche, and the postmodern |
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Why style matters |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Austin, James. Proust, pastiche, and the postmodern, or Why style matters. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2013 xi, 243 pages 9781611484106 (DLC) 2012049496 |
| ISBN |
9781611484113 (electronic book) |
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1611484111 (electronic book) |
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1299853137 (electronic book) |
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9781299853133 (electronic book) |
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9781611484106 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1611484103 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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