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Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism
Editor(s): Elyane Dezon-Jones, Inge Crosman Wimmers
Pages: xvii & 184 pp.
Published: 2003
ISBN: 9780873529099 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873529082 (hardcover)
"This book is a gold mine for instructors who can apply its wealth of concepts, ideas, and sources to classroom teaching. Furthermore, it serves as an important reference book not just for teachers but also for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a thorough understanding in the study of Proust."
Marie-Magdeleine Chirol, Whittier College
Since the first volume of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu was published, in 1913, the work has challenged readers and critics by stretching the genre of the novel: storytelling is paired with essay discourse, fiction blends into autobiography, and the text follows the course of memory instead of chronology. The essays collected in this volume show how the Recherche grew out of Proust's literary criticism to forge a novel that explores the aesthetic, social, philosophical, and sexual concerns of Proust's time in bold, new ways.
The first section, "Materials," demystifies the complex publication history of Proust's works. The editors review an array of resources--from biographies, collections of essays, noted journals, and reference books to audiovisual materials, electronic resources, and dramatizations of Proust's writing. In their review of online resources available for classroom use, the editors pay special attention to the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and Kolb-Proust Archive for Research.
The Recherche, at once canonical and subversive, has elicited a varied critical response, which the essays in the second section, "Approaches," reflect. The first group illuminates the historical background of Proust's artistic milieu and the role of the Dreyfus affair and the First World War in Proust's development as a novelist. The next set interprets the function of names, memory, reading, and homosexuality in the Recherche and other works and discusses film versions of the novel. The final essays provide instructors concrete methods for teaching Proust in diverse teaching environments and at different levels of instruction.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Proust's Fiction and Criticism
Introduction: Why Proust Now?
Inge Crosman Wimmers
PART 1: MATERIALS
Elyane Dezon-Jones and Inge Crosman Wimmers
Editions
French Editions
English Translations
Bibliography of Works by Proust
The Instructor's Library
Aids to Teaching
Audiovisual Material
Proust Online
Proust at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes
Bernard Brun
Genetic Approaches to Proust's Manuscripts
Nathalie Mauriac Dyer
The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
Virginie Greene and Caroline Szylowicz
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Contexts
Proust: A Man of His Times
William C. Carter
The Role of the Dreyfus Affair in the Recherche
Joseph Brami
Cataclysm at One Remove: The War in Le Temps retrouvé
Edward J. Hughes
Proust Art Nouveau?
Françoise Leriche
Proust and Painters
Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa
Seeing Proust Seeing
Mary Ann Caws
"Maintenant, Regardez": Proust in a Postmodern Context
Margaret E. Gray
Interpretive Perspectives
Coding and Decoding: Names in the Recherche
Eugène Nicole
A Lesson in Reading: From Contre Sainte-Beuve to the Recherche
Pascal A. Ifri
In Search of Hidden Impressions
Geneviève Henrot
Proust's Esther
Emily Eells
Intertextual Pedagogy: Proust and Flaubert
Mireille Naturel
Homosexuality in the Recherche
Lawrence R. Schehr
Proust and the Cinema
Rebecca Graves
Specific Teaching Contexts
Teaching the Recherche through Explication de Texte: Proust's Time-Outs
Roger Shattuck
Teaching Proust through "Morceaux Choisis": Peddling Proust
Michèle Magill
Introducing Proust: The Segmentation of "Combray"
Julie Solomon
Proust and Architecture: Reconstructing the Churches of "Combray"
J. Theodore Johnson, Jr.
Proust in a Graduate Seminar: Structuring the Proustian Experience
Christie McDonald
Proust in a Gender Studies Course: What to Do with Montjouvain?
Brigitte Mahuzier
Teaching Proust Comparatively: Proust, Ruskin, and the Visual Arts
Diane R. Leonard
Proust in an Interdisciplinary Context: Literature and Music
Jean-Louis Pautrot
Proust in a Humanities Course: A Place for the Madeleine
Susan Rava
Works Cited
Index
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