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Tag: Sociology

208. (Marcel Proust)

To illuminate Proust, consider Zola, who aspires, like Proust to a mythic scale, and whose novel Germinal is an epic … More

Proust, Sociology, the novel, Zola

196. (Marcel Proust)

In trying to describe the relationship between instinct and intention, convention and originality, which characterizes literary creation, few notions are … More

Pierre Bourdieu, Proust, Sociology

12. (Robert Browning)

Something happens to attention in works of literature during the early stages of the Victorian era—I had wanted to say … More

Attention, Poetry, Randall Collins, Robert Browning, Sociology, Victorian

4. (Henry James)

A friendly debate this afternoon about late Henry James and consciousness: what late Henry James does to, makes of, or … More

Erving Goffman, Fiction, Henry James, Realism, Sociology
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