The Upside-Down Mirror, or Reality Caught in the Act

• Authors: Ébert-Zeminová Catherine
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present contribution, as part of this line of Proustian research that focuses on the specularity and auto-specularity of À la recherche du temps perdu, examines self-reflexive comparisons at a mi- cro- or even nano-level. It emphasizes the examples that bring together an artistic and non-artis- tic element, but at the same time give rise to a blurring of the boundary between what I. A. Rich- ards referred to as the tenor and vehicle, and consequently to a subtle interplay of their status. By using these categories to better understand the free movement between art and non-art, and the back-and-forth that takes place between them, we may arrive at more nuanced answers to the seemingly eternal question of Marcel Proust’s relationship between ‘art’ and ‘reality’, one of the pivots of his work.

Keywords

EN

specularity; auto-specularity; comparison; ambiguity between tenor and vehicle cognitive and ontological consequences of their undecidable/floating status

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 45
• Pages: 203-214

Contributors

author

Ébert-Zeminová Catherine

• Faculty of Pedagogy, Charles University, Prague, Department of French Language and Literature