Dying for time [electronic resource] : Proust, Woolf, Nabokov / Martin Hägglund.
2012
PQ2631.R63 A8195 2012eb
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Dying for time [electronic resource] : Proust, Woolf, Nabokov / Martin Hägglund.
Author
Hägglund, Martin.
ISBN
9780674067844 electronic book
0674066324
9780674066328
0674066324
9780674066328
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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (197 p.)
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PQ2631.R63 A8195 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
843/.912
Summary
"Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time--whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hägglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust's Recherche, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov's Ada. Through his readings of literary works, Hägglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature."--Jacket.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : of chronolibido
Memory : Proust
Trauma : Woolf
Writing : Nabokov
Reading : Freud, Lacan, Derrida
Conclusion : Binding desire.
Memory : Proust
Trauma : Woolf
Writing : Nabokov
Reading : Freud, Lacan, Derrida
Conclusion : Binding desire.