Catherine Colomb's Vision of Time : : in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

• Author: Barbakadze, Tamar.
• Place / Publishing House: Bern : : Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)

This monograph draws on the Swiss French writer Catherine Colomb's modernist, avant-gardist and poetical representation of themes of central contemporary relevance including time, memory and perception. Reading her work next to Proust's and Woolf's writings and in light of the broader culture of her time make Colomb a major novelist of our age.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Time and Narrative in Châteaux En Enfance -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Review of studies on narrative and time in Colomb -- 1.3 Colomb's experimentations with the temporal and narrative modes -- The use of verbal tense -- The 'crisis' of Colomb's novel -- 1.3.1 The mechanism of 'liaison' -- 1.3.2 Characters -- 1.3.3 Point of view -- 1.3.4 Repetition and time -- 1.4 The old and new narrative formulas: Colomb's two modes of writing -- II. The Aesthetics of Time &amp -- the Poetics of Memory in Colomb: in Dialogue With Proust -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Review of studies on time and memory in Proust -- 2.3 Colomb and Proust: The novelists of memory -- 2.4 Associationism vs. reminiscences -- 2.5 Definition of terms -- 2.5.1 Association -- 2.5.2 Reminiscence -- 2.6 Colomb's associationism -- 2.7 Colomb's associations vs. Proust's reminiscences -- III. The Aesthetics of time &amp -- The Poetics of perception in Colomb: in dialogue with Woolf -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Current state of research -- 3.3 'Stream of consciousness' - definition of concept -- 3.4 Interrupted consciousness vs. consciousness as a stream -- 3.5 The aesthetics of enunciation -- 3.5.1 Style indirect libre - definition of concept -- 3.5.2 The aesthetics of enunciation in Colomb and Woolf -- 3.6 The 'roman poétique' by Catherine Colomb -- 3.7 Simultaneity of multiple time frames -- 3.8 A story within Colomb's leitmotif &amp -- Woolf's 'moment' -- 3.8.1 Colomb's leitmotif -- 3.8.2 Woolf's 'moment' -- IV. Time in Colomb, Proust &amp -- Woolf: In Dialogue with the Air Du Temps -- 4.1 Introduction: modernist time -- 4.2 Proust and Bergson -- 4.3 Proust and Einstein -- 4.4 Woolf's negotiations with Russell, Fry &amp -- Einstein -- 4.5 Colomb's negotiations with Bergson &amp -- Einstein.

4.6 Colomb's and Proust's search of the original contact with the world. Darwinism? Bersonism? -- 4.6.1 The Merovingians: Legendary times -- 4.6.2 The body as an actualization of the durée -- 4.6.3 The Durée of Experience -- 4.7 Modern physics and Colomb's and Woolf's weaving a 'web of time' in the perceived and unperceived worlds -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.