FRENCH 217 - Marcel Proust:In Search of Lost Time

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Bard College

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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is about an elaborate internal journey, at the end of which the narrator discovers the unifying pattern of his life as a writer and human being. Famed for its style and its distinctive view of love, sex, cruelty, reading, language, and memory, Proust's epic broke new ground in the invention of a genre that lies between fiction and autobiography. Through a semester devoted to the close reading of Swann's Way and Time Regained in their entirety and several key excerpts from the other volumes, students explore the complex nature of Proust's masterpiece and, among other things, examine the ways by which it accounts for the temporality and new rhythms of modernity. They also question the narrative and stylistic function of homosexuality, discuss the significance of the massive social disruption brought about by the GreatWar, and see how the arts are represented and why they are seminal to the narration. Additional readings include philosophy, art criticism, and literary theory. In English.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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