Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust

An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Bryden & M.Topping PART I: READING ENCOUNTERS The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze); M.Bryden The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiolotics and Proust; C.M.Drohan Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze; E.Fülöp Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2 ; J.Hughes Proust/Deleuze: Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory?; P.Mengue Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature; A.Uhlmann PART II: VISUAL, CINEMATIC AND SONIC ENCOUNTERS Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the 'Secret Pressures of the Work of Art' in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche ; G.Dowd Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton; P.ffrench 'Staring Sightlessly': Prousts Presence in Beckett's Absence; C.Lunberry Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett; F.M.Maier The Long and the Short of it… Moving Images in Proust and Beckett; J.C.Murphy The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust; J.Reid PART III: BODILY ENCOUNTERS Reverberating Inwards: Beckett Reading Proust; M.Bryden PART IV: BODILY AND SENSORY ENCOUNTERS Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett; J.M.Jeffers Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze's Proust; I.Pace Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la Recherché du Temps Perdu ; M.Topping Murphy's Madeleine; A.A.Watt EPILOGUE: AN IMAGINARY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PROUST, BECKETT AND DELEUZE …Proust…Beckett…Deleuze: A Quad Regained; J.Cornette References Index

About the Author :
JÉRÔME CORNETTE (d. April 2008), originally from Paris, was Assistant Professor of French and Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, having taught previously at Reed College and the University of Utah, USA GARIN DOWD teaches in the Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, UK CHRISTOPHER M. DROHAN is Assistant Director, European Graduate School of Media and Communication, Saas-Fee, Switzerland PATRICK FFRENCH is Professor of French, King's College London, UK STEVEN FOSTER is a photographer living and working in Canandaigua, New York, USA ERIKA FÜLÖP recently completed her PhD at the French Department in the University of Aberdeen, UK JOE HUGHES teaches English at the University of Minnesota, USA JENNIFER M. JEFFERS is Professor of English at Cleveland State University, USA CLARK LUNBERRY is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA FRANZ MICHAEL MAIER is Privatdozent of Musicology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany PHILIPPE MENGUE, a retired Professor, was Agrégé and Doctor in Philosophy at the Collège international de Philosophie, Paris, France CAROL MURPHY is Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida and Director of the France-Florida Research Institute, USA IAN PACE pursues parallel careers as a pianist, specialising in contemporary work, and a musicologist concerned especiallywith issues of music and society JAMES REID is a Professor of French, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University, USA ANTHONY UHLMANN is Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, University of Western Sydney, Australia ADAM WATT is Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK