Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's <i>A la Recherche du Temps Perdu</i>
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami12810265382021-08-03T05:41:09Z Reading the Self through the Text of the Other: The Shared Spaces of Marcel Proust's <i>A la Recherche du Temps Perdu</i> D'Amico, John Mark, Jr. Literature Marcel Proust Michel Foucault reading psychoanalysis vision the voice In <i>A la Recherche du temps perdu</i>, 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. 2010-08-09 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281026538 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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