{"title":"Music, Discourse","authors":"T. Baldwin","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781789620016.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620016.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Rummaging further among Barthes’s critical metaphors, Chapter Three examines some of his essays on music (and on Proust on music) from the 1970s and from 1980 alongside his seminars on the ‘Charlus-Discourse’ and a set of unpublished teaching notes for a seminar series that took place at the University of Rabat between 1969 and 1970. Proust’s novel emerges here as ‘musical’, not in the sense that its author is a particularly adept commentator on music (Barthes insists that he is not), but by virtue of the diffractions, vacillations and melodic differentials of intensity and desire by which, according to Barthes, its sentences and its discourses are inhabited.","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131356143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Objects","authors":"T. Baldwin","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781789620016.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620016.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter One engages with Barthes’s discussion of a classical distance from worldly objects and of a modern – nouveau roman-esque – chosisme (which is predicated, Barthes says, upon a certain proximity between people and things) in order to bring the landscapes of Proust’s novel into relief. The chapter also reads Barthes’s paradoxical integration of Proustian elements within his own writing on the nouveau roman as a reflection – a rewriting – of the liminal (the simultaneously classical and modern) texture of À la recherche itself.","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"96 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114111390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neutral, Nuance","authors":"T. Baldwin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter Four explores Barthes’s work on Proust in (or across) three late texts (Comment vivre ensemble, ‘“Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure”’ and La Préparation du\u0000 roman I et II) in order to show that the rhapsodic fabric of À la recherche is such that it outplays the very oppositions it is used (by Barthes) to build and to articulate: it is ‘neutral’ in this sense. Furthermore, this chapter argues that Barthes’s work on Proust’s paradigm-baffling work constitutes an intensely personal and convoluted space of vivid differences and variations, and that it is in this radical variety that the neutrality of Barthes’s writing is to be found. It shows for the first time that several passages in Le Discours amoureux and Fragments d’un discours amoureux can be read as rewritings – as intertextual nuancings and tintings – not only of specific passages in Proust’s novel, but also of Barthes’s Rabat seminar notes on them.","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131017409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music, Discourse","authors":"T. V. Leeuwen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124084412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eros, Rhythm","authors":"T. Baldwin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.7","url":null,"abstract":"In view of Barthes’s suggestion in 1972 that his semiological fantasy has given way to the solicitations of a ‘theory of the signifier, of the literary erotic’, Chapter Two provides further evidence of the supple and variegated materials of which both À la recherche and Barthes’s writing on it are made. It considers the relationship between Barthes’s understanding of the erotic as an intermittent flicker of meaning (of signifiance), the enigmatic idea of variations without a theme, and his discussion, in Comment vivre ensemble:\u0000 simulations romanesques de quelques espaces quotidiens, of rhythm and of what he calls the ‘Charlus-Discourse’. In so doing, it reveals not only that, for Barthes, the tirelessly mobile, erotic rhythm of Proust’s novel is such that it is only partially amenable to the fantasies of structural analysis (of the kind that, according to Barthes, inform his reading of Balzac in S/Z), but also that it demands an unprecedented critical activity that takes both logical or thematic developments and explosions of affect into account.","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128523179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note on the Text","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpb3zc1.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340223,"journal":{"name":"Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115356122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}