'Le Moyen de lire eux-mêmes' : self-understanding and the aesthetic experience of reading in Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu

This thesis discusses the aesthetic experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu, with a special emphasis on the Narrator’s proposition that a literary work may enable its readers to become ’les propres lecteurs d’eux-memes’ (RTFIV, 610). This view prompts two crucial questions ab...

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Main Author: Orhanen, Anna
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.628335