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{"title":"What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Michael Lucey (review)","authors":"Zakir Paul","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"French modernism does not exist. To be sure, the period anglophone criticism calls modernism is marked deeply by literature in French from Baudelaire to Beckett, while the history of post-revolutionary France becomes an allegory of modernity, with its cycles of revolt and repression, and its antinomies of universality and particularity. Yet the absence of modernism as a heuristic category in French literary criticism, until quite recently, has meant that critics need to bring other contexts to bear on the period stretching from the Commune and the Belle Époque to World War I, the Front Populaire, and Vichy. Michael Lucey’s work has done so consistently by locating the “social forms of sexuality” and their modes of enunciation in French narrative from Balzac to Gide and Colette, all the way to Hervé Guibert. What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk—the latest and perhaps most capacious version of this conjunction between the study of literary form and sexuality—casts Proust as a linguistic anthropologist particularly sensitive to the work done by non-semantic forms of talk. The chatter of the salons, often considered a space of wasted time by much Proust criticism, is unfurled here as a teeming, lively world of micro-distinctions. “Language-in-use” indexes the quest for difference in a time of equality, normality, and standardization, not to say domination. Proust’s novel thus constitutes a form of research that pivots between what is otherwise called realism and the experimental postwar novel. Beyond Proust, Lucey’s book takes forays (or “interludes,” as he calls them) into Balzac, George Eliot, and Woolf, on the one hand, and Nathalie Sarraute and Rachel Cusk, on the other. Shifting focus from Saussure and Jakobson back to Michel Bréal, Antoine Meillet, Jules Gilliéron, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Lucey draws on fin-de-siècle interest in semantics and pragmatics reconceived as social indexicality, which becomes the object of metapragmatic research undertaken both by linguists and novelists. In plainer words, this means attending not just to the meaning of words and shifts in how they are used, but to how ways of meaning situate speakers on a slippery scale of relations and identities, from social class to sexuality. Proust was particularly sensitive to such verbal jousting as a triple outsider who delves into yet also distances himself from the world of the snob, the homosexual, and Jews, not to mention the nobility, the middle class, and the intelligentsia. Lucey’s most sustained theoretical resources are the late Michael Silverstein, a pioneer in linguistic anthropology and its theories of “language-in-use,” Erving Goffman’s participation framework, as well as Bourdieu’s conflicting notion of habitus and bodily hexis. The necessity of delimiting a context to read a corpus of writing that is not presided over by a concept like modernism means that criticism of French literature is perennially looking for alternative descriptive cat","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"163 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42086864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Les Soixante-Quinze Feuillets et autres manuscrits inédits by Marcel Proust (review)","authors":"C. Mcdonald","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"162 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Proust to Other Ends","authors":"hannah freed-thall, Franc¸ois Proulx","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45477593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atlas des égarements : Études géocritiques by Bertrand Westphal (review)","authors":"Zhang Qiang","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"164 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46475468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Le Temps returné: Temporal Distortion in À la recherche du temps perdu and Twin Peaks: The Return","authors":"Maury Bruhn","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"various social to unravel the intricate symbols around that hint at the greater vocation he is meant to accomplish. In broad strokes, this is the plot of both Marcel Proust’s 1913 1927 novel À la recherche du temps perdu and David Lynch and Mark Frost’s 2017 streaming series Twin Peaks: The Return. At their core, both works are parables about time. This is clear from their titles alone, which echo one another by evoking backward-facing temporal positions, but also by evoking the idea of a quest, a search, and a return. I read the Recherche and The Return together as two works of art uniquely driven not just to consider time but to create and manip-ulate it, using medial and narrative strategies to halt, distort, and otherwise render time visible.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"127 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42064793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flowers, Houses, People: Unfolding Proust's Japonismes","authors":"C. Bush","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"JAPONISME WAS A SIGNIFICANT ELEMENT of Proust’s social life. This included passing connections with several prominent japoniste figures (such as Pierre Loti, whom Proust knew socially, as well as various impressionist and postimpressionist painters influenced by Japanese art), and many of his friends were passionate japonistes, notably Marie Nordlinger (who worked in Siegfried Bing’s studio) and “le Japonais de Passy,” Robert de Montesquiou.1 As this brief list suggests, japoniste social spaces were often gendered feminine and/or queer; even at the height of its popularity, japonisme was in certain respects identified with social marginality, subject to sexist and homophobic as well as anti-Asian attacks, which, especially around the time of the Russo-Japanese War, were often linked to anti-Semitism.2 While japonisme is less prominent in the narrator’s life in the Recherche, it does appear throughout the novel, as a number of scholars have thoroughly documented in recent years—from Albertine’s kimonos to the narrator’s bonsai metaphors to the paintings of Elstir’s japoniste period.3 Yet nearly all these critical accounts hold at least certain aspects of japonisme at arm’s length, the most common example being the décor of Odette’s apartment, with its “Oriental draperies, strings of Turkish beads, and huge Japanese lantern suspended by a silken cord (which, in order not to deprive her visitors of the latest comforts of Western civilization, was lit by gas).”4 Even critics who have approached the novel’s japonisme sympathetically and in depth have hastened to point out the vulgarity of Odette’s japonisme and to distance it from a more serious japonisme that might be attributed to the author or at least the narrator. And to be fair, many of the memorable appearances of japonisme in the novel do seem to be examples of other people’s questionable taste (the “Japanese salad” served at the Verdurins, for example). Accordingly, it has become a critical commonplace to distinguish between two japonismes in the novel: one a part of Belle Époque social history, the other informing the novel’s own more modernist aesthetics. The former is associated with objects and fashion, the latter with the author’s own literary and aesthetic sensibilities—to be found, respectively, in “Marcel’s story and the narrator’s japoniste discourse,” as Jan Hokenson has summarized (Hokenson 31).5","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"71 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45419861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"L'épisode de la « petite fille pauvre » : Viol et consentement chez Proust","authors":"Pauline Moret-Jankus","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"115 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46542878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Allusions littéraires et écriture cryptée dans l'œuvre de Proust by Francine Goujon (review)","authors":"Adam Watt","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"164 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45301900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Short-Form Proust","authors":"Marta Figlerowicz","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"IN AUGUST 1899, THE DREYFUS AFFAIR was at its height. France’s Court of Cassation had overturned Alfred Dreyfus’s original judgment as guilty, and the case had been referred to a military court in Rennes. The retrial began on August 7; on August 14, Dreyfus’s defense lawyer, Fernand Labori, was shot en route to the courthouse. Proust, who was twenty-eight at the time, and a still-little-known writer, was not Labori’s acquaintance. All the same, he was moved to send Dreyfus’s lawyer a telegram. The telegram reached Labori on August 18, by which point Labori’s condition was improving, and he was soon to resume his place on Dreyfus’s defense. Preserved in Harvard’s Houghton Library amid files related to the Dreyfus affair, it reads as follows (Figure 1):","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":" ","pages":"25 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42699999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Proustian Intelligence","authors":"Zakir Paul","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0034","url":null,"abstract":"INTELLIGENCE WAS AN EMBATTLED TERM in Third Republic France. Its constitution and destitution mark a series of philosophic, political, literary, and affective contexts that shape this moment of modern French thought and culture. Literary critical texts from the Belle Époque to the First World War—from Maurras and Massis to Valéry, Bergson, Proust, and the critics of the Nouvelle Revue Française—register dominant attitudes toward intelligence, while also representing alternative modes of relating to or deviating from the faculty.1 Proust’s literary-critical project begins with a disavowal of intelligence, stated with dramatic concision in a famous passage from the Contre Sainte-Beuve drafts, which begins, “Chaque jour j’attache moins de prix à l’intelligence.”2 The Recherche, as we shall see, tells a more nuanced story about the ambiguous necessity of intelligence, and the position one must take toward it to write and read fiction, as well as to relate to others and the world. From its salons to its studios, from its fields to its bedrooms, the novel offers myriad examples of how “intelligence” might feel, look, and especially sound in language. Proust knowingly mobilizes a host of meanings attached to this “complex word” since its emergence as a subject of scientific and philosophical discourse, and his characters use it with no less circumspection in their evaluation of themselves and each other.3 Attending to talk about “intelligence” allows us to view a nexus of questions crucial for Proustian poetics from an acute angle, suggesting insights other than the ones crystallized by the narrator’s theoretical musings in Le temps retrouvé. “It is Proust’s courtesy,” notes Adorno, “to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.”4 While Adorno’s observation describes one of the pleasures of reading Proust, it does not acknowledge how the novel imagines relational modes other than cleverness, many of which complicate the narrator’s beliefs about the nature and limits of the self. My larger project, to which these pages allude, deals with the rise of “intelligence” in the context of philosophical and psychological explorations in the late nineteenth century, showing how intelligence goes from being a faculty of mind to a sign of interpretive, aesthetic, and cultural power.5 Tracking the mutations of intelligence sharpens our vision of the complex rhetorical status French literature invented for itself as a form of language and thought wrested from intelligence. This dual relation of opposition and origination underscores the difficulty of abdicating intelligence once and","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"54 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41444954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}