Science and Structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu

by Nicola Luckhurst

Overview

Proust is read as a writer of maxims and metaphors, of short and long sentences, as at once an aesthete and a scientific thinker. His A la recherche du temps perdu is a hybrid, a novel-essay, an epistemological debate that crosses the boundaries between two cultures, art and science. Science and Structure explores the epistemological alertness and anxiety of Proust's masterpiece and in so doing illuminates the interrelations between "modernist" art and science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198160021
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/06/2000
Series:	Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

IntroductionMaximsCorrespondence between Art and ScienceRetroductionHypothesisModellingKnowledge as Revolution and RevelationTheory-laden souffranceSerendipityBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

For the reader willing to take on the challenge, no partitions block the rich, rewarding knowledge of this sigla intervention in the Proustian discourse. Hats off to the authors and the Oxford University Press.
—Times Literary Supplement

Margaret Gray