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Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

D'Amico, John Mark, Jr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538

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2010, Master of Arts, Miami University, French, Italian, and Classical Studies.
In A la Recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust writes that he would be mistaken in calling any of his readers “mon lecteur.” Instead, he calls each person who reads his novel to use it as an instrument to read his or her own interior text. This thesis explores Proust’s theories on reading through psychoanalytic and Foucauldian optics, asking what it might mean to read within oneself through an object that is “other.” In order to explore the function of this mediative device—Proust’s novel—that collapses the binaries of self and other, inside and out, reader and author, we will look at the senses that he uses as metaphors for reading, vision and hearing, in particular. In sum, the virtual coexistence of the author’s novel and the reader’s interior text that occurs through the act of reading creates a shared textual space in which the subjectivities of both individuals overlap in a new type of meta-textual metaphor—one that is custom-made for and by each reader.
James Creech, PhD (Advisor)
Anna Klosowska, PhD (Committee Member)
Jonathan Strauss, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Literature
Marcel Proust; Michel Foucault; reading; psychoanalysis; vision; the voice

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  • D'Amico, Jr., J. M. (2010). Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • D'Amico, Jr., John. Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • D'Amico, Jr., John. "Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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