Time and Sense
Proust and the Experience of Literature
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 2025
442 pages
978-0-231-56164-8 (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.
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Persons
Contributor: Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université 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
