Time and Sense
Proust and the Experience of Literature
Published on 14. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
442 pages
978-0-231-21678-4 (ISBN)
Description
Julia Kristeva's Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect on broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
Reviews / Votes
What makes Time and Sense an important and enlivening book . . . is that Kristeva is a critic of great psychoanalytic insight who is also finely sensitive to the complex rhetorical and syntactical elaboration of Proust's world. -- Peter Brooks * New York Times Book Review * Offers up a fresh and incisive reading of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. * Antioch Review * Delivers a reading of Proust that rigorously and, at times, in startlingly original fashion, addresses the epic content and structure of Proust's vision and language. . . . Kristeva's exceptional work is worth all the effort it requires to wade through it. It marks time truly well-spent. * Modern Fiction Studies * The most remarkable feature of Time and Sense, however, is Kristeva's writing style. . . . The result is a highly literary effect, a poetically charged tribute to the Proustian sentence in a voice that is simultaneously that of Kristeva and Proust. * European Journal of Women's Studies *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
9 illus
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-21678-4 (9780231216784)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature."
Content
Translator's Note
List of Abbreviations
Part I. The Characters Regained
1. Superimpositions
2. A Penchant for Classicism: Its Origins and Manifestations
3. Questions of Identity
Part II. When Saying Is Perceiving
4. The Experience of Time Embodied
5. A Tribute to the Metaphor
6. Is Sensation a Form of Language?
7. Proust the Philosopher
Part III. The Imaginary; or Geometry in Time
8. The Proustian Sentence
9. Losing Impatience
10. Time for a Long Time
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
Part I. The Characters Regained
1. Superimpositions
2. A Penchant for Classicism: Its Origins and Manifestations
3. Questions of Identity
Part II. When Saying Is Perceiving
4. The Experience of Time Embodied
5. A Tribute to the Metaphor
6. Is Sensation a Form of Language?
7. Proust the Philosopher
Part III. The Imaginary; or Geometry in Time
8. The Proustian Sentence
9. Losing Impatience
10. Time for a Long Time
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index