Hannah Freed-Thall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1062327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Freed-Thall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Freed-Thall |
| SIGNATURE | FREED-THALL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fugitive Proust
How are we to read Proust today? How does In Search of Lost Time speak to us now? This novel has been so thoroughly mapped that it may seem there is nothing left to discover. Many of us have trampe
Proust on the Beach
What becomes visible when we consider À la recherche du temps perdu from the vantage point of the beach? This article contends that Proust's beach resort, Balbec, stages a reconfiguration of social ritual and corporeal style. Balbec is both an enormous casino and the 'springboard' for a loosely scripted, habit-disrupting social choreography. In contrast to both the aristocratic salons of Paris and the bourgeois family nucleus that characterizes C…
Le Monde relancé à chaque phrase »
Hannah Freed-Thall & Thangam Ravindranathan : Pour commencer, une question sur le collectif, idee phare de notre colloque et de ce numero special de la revue SITES. Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissan
Speculative Modernism
This article argues that practices of gambling and stock-market speculation shaped Marcel Proust's aesthetic imagination. What drew Proust to speculation was not only the thrill of sudden losses or gains, but the experience of mediated connectivity itself. Proust loved the anticipation, gossip, and queer sociability that speculation afforded him, and he mobilized a strategy of wild expenditure calculated to draw others close. Attending to the eff…
Prestige of a Momentary Diamond
The essay examines Proust's involvement in the "Lemoine Affair," a diamond-fabrication scam that captured the French popular imagination in 1908. Lemoine's hoax inspired Proust to undertake his own virtuosic exercise in fraud: in the year before he began drafting In Search of Lost Time, he published a series of pastiches in the newspaper- fictional accounts of the affair written in the styles of Balzac, Flaubert, Michelet, and others. These pasti…
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Critics from Bourdieu to Bersani have emphasized a redemptive logic governing Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. This essay investigates an alternative, non-appropriative paradigm for reading in Proust—an aesthetics of the unqualifiable, or “quelconque” (“whatever”). I argue that the most striking aesthetic experiences in the novel are those that expose the critic’s incapacitation in the face of the incomparably commonplace object. At stake …
Une Répugnante Complicité
Speculative Modernism
This article argues that practices of gambling and stock-market speculation shaped Marcel Proust's aesthetic imagination. What drew Proust to speculation was not only the thrill of sudden losses or gains, but the experience of mediated connectivity itself. Proust loved the anticipation, gossip, and queer sociability that speculation afforded him, and he mobilized a strategy of wild expenditure calculated to draw others close. Attending to the eff…
Prestige of a Momentary Diamond
The essay examines Proust's involvement in the "Lemoine Affair," a diamond-fabrication scam that captured the French popular imagination in 1908. Lemoine's hoax inspired Proust to undertake his own virtuosic exercise in fraud: in the year before he began drafting In Search of Lost Time, he published a series of pastiches in the newspaper- fictional accounts of the affair written in the styles of Balzac, Flaubert, Michelet, and others. These pasti…
Une Répugnante Complicité
Zut, zut, zut, zut
Critics from Bourdieu to Bersani have emphasized a redemptive logic governing Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. This essay investigates an alternative, non-appropriative paradigm for reading in Proust—an aesthetics of the unqualifiable, or “quelconque” (“whatever”). I argue that the most striking aesthetic experiences in the novel are those that expose the critic’s incapacitation in the face of the incomparably commonplace object. At stake …
Prestige of a Momentary Diamond
The essay examines Proust's involvement in the "Lemoine Affair," a diamond-fabrication scam that captured the French popular imagination in 1908. Lemoine's hoax inspired Proust to undertake his own virtuosic exercise in fraud: in the year before he began drafting In Search of Lost Time, he published a series of pastiches in the newspaper- fictional accounts of the affair written in the styles of Balzac, Flaubert, Michelet, and others. These pasti…
Speculative Modernism
This article argues that practices of gambling and stock-market speculation shaped Marcel Proust's aesthetic imagination. What drew Proust to speculation was not only the thrill of sudden losses or gains, but the experience of mediated connectivity itself. Proust loved the anticipation, gossip, and queer sociability that speculation afforded him, and he mobilized a strategy of wild expenditure calculated to draw others close. Attending to the eff…
Le Monde relancé à chaque phrase »
Hannah Freed-Thall & Thangam Ravindranathan : Pour commencer, une question sur le collectif, idee phare de notre colloque et de ce numero special de la revue SITES. Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissan
Proust on the Beach
What becomes visible when we consider À la recherche du temps perdu from the vantage point of the beach? This article contends that Proust's beach resort, Balbec, stages a reconfiguration of social ritual and corporeal style. Balbec is both an enormous casino and the 'springboard' for a loosely scripted, habit-disrupting social choreography. In contrast to both the aristocratic salons of Paris and the bourgeois family nucleus that characterizes C…
Fugitive Proust
How are we to read Proust today? How does In Search of Lost Time speak to us now? This novel has been so thoroughly mapped that it may seem there is nothing left to discover. Many of us have trampe
Art (7 works) · French Literature and Criticism (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · French Literature and Critical Theory (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)