PROUST'S ENGINE (Silnik Prousta)

• Authors: Danius Sara
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress analyses the role of modern pieces of machinery whose purpose in Marcel Proust's novel cycle 'A la recherche du temps perdu' becomes aesthetic. Railroad, phonography, telegraphy, telephony, cinematography, x-ray technology, automobiles, airplanes - all that passes forward in front of the reader's eyes, reinforcing the cycle's grand theme: the 'lost time'. Modernity, as she argues, brings about an emancipation of the senses in that the latter are no more merely an instrument of cognition but are transferred to the sphere of aesthetics.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY OF LITERATURE (19TH C.); MODERNISM.; PROUST MARCEL; TECHNOLOGY IN LITERAUTRE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 3(111)
• Pages: 141-149
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Danius Sara

• Sara Danius, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05595