Proust et la voie indirecte
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In my dissertation, titled "Proust et la voie indirecte" [Proust and the indirect way], I explore the mechanism of "indirectness" in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. I study indirect strategies, ranging from invisible manipulations to imposed obligations, through which some characters achieve theirs goals by using other people who act for them. I show that some indirect actions can take a passive form. Even if the intermediary is passive, his/her presence remains mandatory to allow the desiring character to reach his/her goal. More specifically, I study situations in which the goal is the acquisition of prestige. I also identify particular situations in which indirect actions are only pseudo-actions, through which characters justify their disempowerment and their inability to assume responsibility for their acts. I show that the most typical indirect actions are those in which the desiring character's chances of success are extremely limited or even non-existent. I also argue that in some cases in which characters perceive someone's help as a chance event, there is a certain amount of intentionality involved. Therefore, those actions could be apprehended as indirect ones. I also apply the mechanisms found in the characters' behavior at a superior level, by considering the text itself the result of an indirect act. I argue that the writing of the book by the narrator -- the main subject of the novel -- could also be apprehended as an indirect mechanism that results in the book being potentially produced by a different "author, " after the potential death of the narrator saying "I." Finally, in the conclusion, I show that Proust's pragmatic ambitions for his reader imply indirectness as well: the author trains his reader to use indirect methods in his/her interpretations.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Romaniuc, Bianca-Stela |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Degree committee member | Alduy, Cécile |
| Degree committee member | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French & Italian. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bianca-Stela Romaniuc-Boularand. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French & Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Bianca-Stela Romaniuc
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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