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Course Description

Throughout his multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust refers widely to texts, art, and architecture from the ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern periods. In this course, we will explore the most prominent of these texts, such as Plato’s Phaedrus and Racine’s Phèdre, and such artworks as help us visualize more clearly select passages from the novel. The reading each week will revisit these passages, so that we may see how Proust deploys his allusions.

 

Week/Reading:

1. Proust essays: “On Reading” and “The Death of Cathedrals”

2. Plato Phaedrus (in PDF)

3. Racine Phédre (in PDF)

4. Saint-Simon Memoirs (selections in PDF)

5. Chateaubriand (selections in PDF)
6. Paintings in Proust
7. Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies
8. Ruskin: “The Nature of Gothic” & “The Lamp of Memory” (selections in PDF)
9. Madame de Sevigne (selections in PDF)
10. Balzac Père Goriot (character Vautrin = Charlus)

 

 

Notes

Online registration deadline: March 15, 5 PM CT

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