What Proust heard : novels and the ethnography of talk /
"What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk,...
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Chicago :
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Proust the Linguistic Anthropologist
- Interlude: Talk in Balzac and Eliot
- Idiotic Speech (Acts?) and the Form of In Search of Lost Time
- Interlude: Harmonizing Habitus in Woolf
- Proust and Bourdieu: Distinction and Form
- Interlude: Indexical Force in Sarraute and Cusk
- Conclusion: Animation and Statistics.