Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-608).
Contents:
The text of Swann's way -- Contexts: Swann's first critic : a confidential report, 1912 ; Élie-Joseph Bois and Proust's defence fo Swann ; Lucien Daudet on Swann ; Paul Souday on Swann ; André Arnyvelde : an interview with Proust -- Criticism: The types of signs / Gilles Deleuze ; The image of Proust / Walter Benjamin ; Metonymy in Proust / Gérard Genette ; The work and its author / Roger Shattuck ; Remembering Swann : memory and representation in Proust / Claudia Brodsky ; Proust and Wagner : the climb to the octave above, or, The scale of love (and death) / Richard Goodkin ; The Proustian fabric : associations of memory / Christie McDonald ; The last writer of the nineteenth century and the first writer of the twentieth / Antoine Compagnon ; Time and sense : Proust and the experience of literature / Julia Kristeva ; Sexuality and readability / Elisabeth Ladenson ; Proust among the stars / Malcolm Bowie -- Contemporary readings of Proust: Proust, narrative, and ambivalence in contemporary culture / Margaret E. Gray ; How to love life today / Alain de Botton ; Imaginary concerts : the music of fictional composers / Alex Ross.
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