What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk,New

What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk,New

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Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Prousts In Search of Lost Time.What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Prousts monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Prousts narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language. Proust, in other words, is interested in what linguistic anthropologists call languageinuse.Michael Lucey elucidates Prousts approach to languageinuse in a number of ways: principally in relation to linguistic anthropology, but also in relation to speech act theory, and to Pierre Bourdieus sociology. The book also includes an interlude after each of its chapters that contextualizes Prousts socialscientific practice of novel writing in relation to that of a number of other novelists, earlier and later, and from several different traditions, including Honor de Balzac, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Nathalie Sarraute, and Rachel Cusk. Lucey is thus able to show how, in the hands of quite different novelists, various aspects of the novel form become instruments of linguistic anthropological analysis. The result introduces a different way of understanding language to literary and cultural critics and explores the consequences of this new understanding for the practice of literary criticism more generally.

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